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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
Looking Back on CS Education in 2016
I started 2016 with a post called Computer Science Education Things to Watch in 2016. It's time to look back and write about what I think I saw over the year. My...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Acting Out The Loop
One of my major goals this year has been to get more activity in class to help students understand concepts. Jumping right into code is awfully abstract for many...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s Your Elf Name–A Programming Project
I love string manipulation projects. Maybe because I have always been more of a word person than a math person. Who knows why. I see them every where. For example...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Education Week School/District Pledge
Does your school believe in Computer Science for All? Take the @CSforAll #CSEdWeekpledge to show your support and be included in announcement! Our economy isCSforAll...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Fast Can You Sort a Deck of Cards?
OK I admit it – sorting fascinates me. No, really it does. OF course it is also an important topic for computer science classes. CS Unplugged has a lot of resources...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming vs. Computer Science
Programming is not the same thing as computer science. But of course they are related. For example, knowing how to use the following arrays is programming. Knowing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Truth and Fiction in Programming Memes
I ran into a couple of images with messages about programming today. One I think is useful. The other I think is the opposite of useful. The first one is cute.I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hello Cloud 2017
I’m telling my students about this. Looks like it will be educational even if money is not enough of an incentive. Online Contest The Power of Azure MasterHello...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Too Many CS Teaching Resources
The Bring IT, Together conference is taking place this week in Niagara Falls, Canada. I’m not there but I have been seeing some social media updates today. Itrobots...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking Deeper About Programming Contests
I have this set of mixed feelings about student programming contests. On one level they just feel very artificial and inauthentic. You have a tight time schedule...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why is learning Binary hard?
Why is learning Binary (and various number bases) so hard for students? I don't remember how exactly there were taught to me except that it was in either the 5th...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robots for Teaching are everywhere–Which should I use and how?
Do a search for “robots for teaching programming” using your favorite search engine sometime. You’ll find a lot of news about the latest and greatest robot forRoot...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science and the Good Idea Fairy
The Good Idea Fairy struck again today. I have been taking about data checking and data safety with my freshmen lastly. One of the things we talk about is parity...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 October 2016
The two big news event around computer science last week were the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn and the release of the new K-12 Computer Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
K–12 Computer Science Framework Released
After over a year of hard work by a lot of people (I had a small role myself) the K–12 Computer Science Framework is now officially out. Frankly I expect some criticism...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 October 2016
Lots of announcements from the Computer Science Teachers Association this past week. We’ll start with them for this week’s links. 2017 CSTA Conference Call for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2017 CSTA Conference Call for Proposals
The CSTA Annual Conference is my favorite conference for computer science education. I have been privileged to attend most of them over the years. And honored to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Security and the Internet of Things
Yesterday I wrote about Cars and Code about the intersection of transportation and software development. As a teaser I mentioned secure code and the need for that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cars and Code
The other day I heard someone talk about what it might be like if car makers or other manufacturers released products the way most companies released software.Ford...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson