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DigiGirlz Cambridge MA
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DigiGirlz Cambridge MA

Last Friday Microsoft NERD (New England Research and Development Center) was pleased to host DigiGirlz Day for close to 300 high school girls from around Massachusetts...

Interesting Links 2 April 2012
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Interesting Links 2 April 2012

I spent part of last week Getting Ready For Windows 8. Sad to admit but it took me until last week to install the Windows 8 Consumer Preview over the developerVisual...

DevCamps
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

DevCamps

Microsoft is happy to announce that Windows 8 DevCamps have been added...

Windows Reimagined
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Windows Reimagined

Windows 8 is going to be a big change for a lot of people. Microsoft is of course doing a lot to help people prepare for this. As part of this effort Microsoft...

Why Universities Should Host High School Programming Contests
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Why Universities Should Host High School Programming Contests

I finished up last week with a trip to Western New England University where they were running a high school programming contest. I love these events because I think...

26 March 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

26 March 2012

Busy week (as usual) in between meetings and trying to Get ready for Windows 8. I also spent some time at a high school programming contest which I

Who Is In Charge
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Who Is In Charge

I have to confess that I have not been doing a great job of keeping up with my blog reading lately.  I

Getting Ready For Windows 8
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Getting Ready For Windows 8

Like almost everyone at Microsoft I have been hard at work getting ready for Windows 8. I

The Best and Most Innovative Teachers
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

The Best and Most Innovative Teachers

Being somewhat opinionated about the subject (who am I kidding

Windows Phone Software Development Kit
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Windows Phone Software Development Kit

I know I have mentioned the Windows Phone SDK (software development kit) a lot in the past but usually only as a reference along with other things. It really deserves...

Interesting Links 19 March 2012
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Interesting Links 19 March 2012

Have you gotten the free software tools to develop for Windows Phone 7.5 and Xbox LIVE Indie Games Please take a look at these great resources. By the way I have...

ChronoZoom
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

ChronoZoom

Microsoft Research announced a new project a couple of days ago called ChronoZoom - An Infinite Canvas in Time and you can get full information at that link but...

Pex4fun, an online lab for APCS
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Pex4fun, an online lab for APCS

Are you teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science? Are you looking for supplemental exercises that may help you students with the concepts? If so this announcement...

Tic Tac Toe for Windows Phone
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Tic Tac Toe for Windows Phone

Introduction We are going to create a simple Tic Tac Toe game for Windows Phone. We

Interesting Links 12 March 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 12 March 2012

In between the usual meetings, email exchanges, phone calls and meeting basketball stars (Why College?) I managed to collect a good number of links this week....

Dr Z
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Dr Z

If you have downloaded and installed the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview you have noticed that is is different. In many ways very different from previous versions...

Why College?
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Why College?

Yesterday Edwin Guarin and I represented Microsoft at the formal opening of a computer lab at the Clark Elementary and Middle school in Hartford CT. The lab was...

Register for CSTA's 2012 Annual CS&IT Conference
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Register for CSTA's 2012 Annual CS&IT Conference

CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference This is the big and best professional development event of the year for middle and high school computer science educators. The program...

Using Kinect for Windows with XNA Curriculum
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Using Kinect for Windows with XNA Curriculum

I mentioned Rob Miles new Using Kinect for Windows with XNA curriculum in Monday

CS 2012 Strawman Draft Comment Period Open
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CS 2012 Strawman Draft Comment Period Open

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, (ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Strawman draft) the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) Strawman...
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