Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Code Slow Finish Fast
Looking through student code today brought this quote to mind.“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Mark Twain Students are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Math vs Programming
Take a look at these two equations. I found the first one on Facebook. The second is my first attempt at rewriting it for the computer. What is the answer? Well...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Teachers Association T-shirt Campaign
Are you a computer science education super hero? You know you are so now you need the t-shirt. Get yours here and also support the computer science teachers association...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSPdWeek: Free Professional Development for many K-12 Teachers
The people I talk to who went to last year;s event rave about it. If you are looking for some good professional development this is well worth looking into. CSPdWeek...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM and CSTA Announce Cutler-Bell Prize Student Winners
Make no mistake I think the Cutler-Bell Prize is an outstanding award. I love that it recognizes early computer scientists (high school students!) for outstanding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Datasets For Use in Teaching Computer Science
I found this thanks to the APCS A mailing list. CORGIS Datasets Project The Collection of Really Great, Interesting, Situated Datasets “The CORGIS Datasets...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hip Hip Array
My programming courses are a semester long. That’s it. After that someone else gets to teach them more programming and computer science. A semester is not a lot...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
March Madness and Programming Projects
Yesterday was selection Sunday and the NCAA announced the teams entering the 2017 basketball championships. So of course I thought about programming projects. I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conferences for K-12 Computer Science Educators
If you are a K-12 teacher looking for conferences about using technology in education there are many conferences one can go to. If you are a post secondary school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s New in C# 7.0 for Beginning Programmers
Well it looks like Visual Studio 2017 is out. I've installed the of the community edition on my Surface (not enough disk for everything I'd like :-( ) but enough...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Infosys Foundation USA Asks Why Do You Make #WhyIMake
Thanks to a Facebook link I found a video interview created by Infosys Foundation USA. on why he “makes.” This lead to one with Adam Savage of mythbuster fame on...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bit Rot or How do I read this data?
Last night I had a very weird dream. In it I was trying to recover the programs I wrote in college. I have saved most of them. Well in a manner of speaking. Some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You’re Teaching the Wrong Programming Language
No, really you are. If someone hasn’t told you this yet it’s probably because too few people know what programming language you are teaching. Of course someoneStarting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Software Developers–Quantity vs Quality
Today is a snow day here in New Hampshire. My third one this week. So I have taken care of most of the errands I use snow days to take care of and have some time...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Review the revised K-12 Computer Science (CS) Standards
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) revised K-12 Computer Science (CS) Standards is now available for review. This is not to be confused with the CS...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Complex Question of Complexity in Programming
I spent most of last week grading semester projects written by my students. Reading through the code of beginners is really interesting. It’s interesting in part...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education at SxSWEdu 2017
SxSWedu is one big conference I have never been to. Seeing how it is tied to the big South By SouthWest Interactive and Music conferences it has always fascinated...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What I Learned in College
For various reasons my thoughts lately have been on my college experience. Now I graduated in 1975 which was a few years ago. A lot has changed in computing and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Important Are Number Bases for pre-University Computer Science?
Do high school or younger computer science students really need to understand number-base conversion and binary, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems? Obviously...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson