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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
Thoughts on CSTA Conferences Past and Present
I am attending the 2023 CSTA Conference online. I’m not writing blog posts about it the way I normally do. Lots of reasons for that but I will post some learnings...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conversations on AI in Education
Pat Yongpradit from Code.Org tweeted an image of what they are seeing in conversations about AI and Education. (The link on the image below goes to that tweet)Now...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding With AIs Prompts Are Important
Last night, when I could not sleep, I got up and wrote some code. I added some features and data checking to my Wordle solver helper program. When I finished I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finding Words With All The Letters Programming project
Does anyone else lay in bed in the morning thinking about coding projects or is it just me? I’ve been playing around with a Wordle solver helper for a while now...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Recommendations for CS People
tl;dr Book recommendations: Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does It Run in the IDE?
I was reading a tweet from a person saying they lost points a program written with pen and paper because the teacher thought the code would not run. When the student...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
People Are Bad At Giving Instructions
One of the things that make me sure that programming will be around for awhile even with better and better artificial intelligences is that people are bad at giving...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Students–Learn Your IDE
Eugene Wallingford had a great post on WHAT WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SUCCEED AS A CS STUDENT? It’s got a lot of good advice and I recommend it to students in high school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rhode Island Computer Museum
I spent some time looking at the Rhode Island Computer Museum web page today. A lot of interesting stuff. Some great information under the Education and Activities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Jobs Are Safe From Automation?
“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Yogi BerraThat doesn't mean people don't try. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back and Looking Forward in CS Education 2023
Traditionally I write a year end look back on thee previous yest in CS education. (Last year at Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2021) Honestly, that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on Optimization of Code
Donald E. Knuth famously said "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." The important word there is “premature.” Optimization is not a bad thing. It isn...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding with ChatGPT–Armstrong Numbers
Trying out ChatGPT seems to be all the rage these days in certain geek circles. I may even be late to the game but I tried a few things over the last couple ofnarcissistic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Computers Write Code
For most of my career I hive been hearing that some day computers will write all the code and human programmers will no longer be needed. Or at least, not as needed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Adventures in Taking Code From the Internet
Facebook memories remined me that ten years ago I was thinking about writing a program that would ring bells (nautical time) on the hour and half hour. I didn't...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA New England Regional Conference #cstaNE2022
This year’s CSTA New England regional conference is at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) school of Education. It’s a great venue. There are around 150 people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Computer Science Professional Development Problem
Mike Zamansky is stirring up trouble again. OK not really his intent I’m sure but people can get defensive. I have to say that I agree in principle with most of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Micro:Bit Programming for Grades K to 3 With #MicroCode
The Micro:Bit is a pretty cool piece of hardware being used in a lot of schools. It’s mostly used in middle school and above but that may be changing. New fromMicrocode...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Far We Have Come With Programming Languages
Last night I had a dream during which someone suggested that COBOL would make a good first programming language. They tried to promote the data division and English...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson