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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 August 2011
Hurricane Irene was the big news on the east coast of the US and parts of the Caribbean last week. Oh and there was a surprising east coast earthquake last week...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2011 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
Calling all digital divas, web chix & coder girls! It’s time to start thinking about the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing. This is a great program which...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computational Thinking Leadership Toolkit
Computational thinking is, in my opinion at least, a lot more than the latest buzz word or fad in education. It is really at the core of what we need for success...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Languages That Make You Think
The old joke used to be that
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
There Is Research On That
Computers are good at games. Well sort of. Computers are good at following rules and making decisions based on rules that are programmed into them. These rulesresearch...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 August 2011
No out of the area travel for me last week. It was nice to sleep in my own bed every night. This is not to say that I wasn
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 August 2011
No out of the area travel for me last week. It was nice to sleep in my own bed every night. This is not to say that I wasn’t busy. I had some meetings with the@purplespatula...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready or Not
Well according to my Twitter feed a lot of schools in the US south are back to school. Teachers are reporting for duty and students are expected any day now. My...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready or Not–New School Year About To Start
Well according to my Twitter feed a lot of schools in the US south are back to school. Teachers are reporting for duty and students are expected any day now. My...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Web-Based Problem Solving Software for Programming Courses
We all know that students benefit for problem solving exercises. Creating these sorts of problems can be difficult and time consuming. Evaluating them and help...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Time To Cut The Cake
I ran across a couple of cool Lego links yesterday. One of was this link to Robots for Everyone: Getting Kids Interested in Programming with Legos which talks about...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone Development Training Online
SO you probably know that a new version of the Windows Phone software is coming very soon. If you are planning on teaching phone development you may also be thinking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 August 2011
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone Development Training Online
SO you probably know that a new version of the Windows Phone software is coming very soon. If you are planning on teaching phone development you may also be thinking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Low Level Programming
A blog post by Andy Firth, an Engineer Architect at Bungie, called The demise of the low level Programmer is getting some attention lately. In the post he lists...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Before Programming
For most people the first real computer science course is introduction to programming. It may be called something else but effectively what it is is a course that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Abstraction At The Core of Computer Science
I spent the latter part of last week in Palo Alto, California working on the CS 2013 project. There are some pretty amazing people involved in this project (CS)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 August 2011
I’m home for a while now. A month anyway. I’ve made 6 trips in the last 6 weeks and only one of them for vacation. So it will be nice to be home for a while. Maybe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computational Tales
I recently found out (thanks to the SIGCSE mailing list) that Dr. Jeremy Kubica, software engineer and manager at Google, has been putting together a set of examples...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson