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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
Data! I need more data!
Big data! I don
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How Many Letters In An Alphabet
My mind tends to wonder a bit when I drive long distances. Sometimes it goes in very weird directions. For some reason I started thinking about encoding characters...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers
Paul Vick posted these Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers earlier this week and I have been thinking about them a lot. They make sense to me. As a professional...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Competition as Learning
As I write this I am at St Joseph
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Always Mount A Scratch Monkey
Do today
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Interesting Posts 16 May 2011
Computer Science teacher Pat Yongpradit seems to be everywhere on the educational blogosphere lately. I posted about his 5-6 week XNA course curriculum last week...
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Returning Data From A Second Form
The other day I received a query about using second forms in Visual Basic. I found a link to some examples and passed it along but it left me unsettled. The teacher...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
University Computer Science Faculty Blogs
I read a lot of blogs. Perhaps too many. But there are a few blogs I could not do without. I thought I might do a series of recommendations on different types of...
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What Can You Do With What You Know?
We
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Computer Science As Competitive Sport
I was reading Tracey Armstrong's blog this morning. He was writing about the end of the Texas CS Competition season. Yep, in Texas there is a Computer Science competition...
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Programming with C# and XNA 0.5: Jump Start
Pat Yongpradit, a talented young HS CS teacher I have written about before, has created a 5 week mini-course on game programming with XNA Game Studio. This course...
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Interesting Links Post 9 May 2011
I had a great week last week. Long but great. I finished up with two conferences where for once I was not presenting. On the other hand the next time I go to either...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Students To Create Their Own Business
One of the things that I tell students when I do career talks is that it has never been easier to start a software business than it is today. Many great companies...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Cup Submission Deadline is May 10th 2011
Just a reminder that the submission deadline for the Microsoft Kodu Cup is next week on May 10th, 2011. There is still time to create a new game with Kodu and...
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Mid Atlantic Developer Expo is Coming!
This event looks interesting. If you are in the mid-Atlantic (say around Virginia) and interested in a local, reasonably prices and potentially seriously educational...
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Why Not C#
Someone recently passed on same objection to using C# as a first or otherwise early programming language. I hear these sorts of comments all the time and while...
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Most Read Posts
I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the top read blog posts from April 2011. I look at both web statistics and RSS statistics.In some ways I feel...
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Interesting Links 2 May 2011
I had an interesting week last week. Took a couple of vacation days
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Academic Feedback Survey
If you are a computer science or information technology professor/instructor/teacher would you help us out as we make plans for how Microsoft can support you in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson