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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
Creative Coding Through Games and Apps
I've been looking into this lately. It looks like an interesting first course for a lot of schools. Creative Coding Through Games and Apps is a first-semester...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Contests for Computer Science Students and Grants for Teachers
Earth | Microsoft Imagine Cup https://www.imaginecup.com/Earth via @MSFTimagine An Imagine Cup coding competition for students between 6 and 18 years old from Microsoft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 November 2015
Yesterday’s interesting links was all about links to educators and their blogs and resources. Today is about links from non profits and companies. Good stuff all...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 November 2015
Last week was loaded with interesting things flowing from blogs, twitter, Facebook and email. When I first put this post together I realized it was so long that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How do you terrify computer science students?
How do you terrify computer science students? Ask them to design their own project to be graded. I asked my programming students today to come up with a project...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Adding Interest Via Data
One of the lessons that stuck with my from some workshops I took some years ago was that more interesting projects involved doing things that involve a lot of data...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup Earth–Online Competition
Back in my Microsoft days I was actively promoting the Imagine Cup competitions. Realistically, while a couple of high school teams did well, its really hard for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Beetle Blocks Visual Code for 3D Design
The other day I added a new entry to my blog post listing drag and drop programming languages. It is based on Scratch and Snap! which many teachers are alreadyBeetle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How to Teach Coding
Mitchel Resnick, the man behind Scratch and other cool educational tools, runs the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT’s Media Lab. He posted a great article...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Congressional App Challenge 2016
Do you know students who are interested in creating an app? The Congressional App Challenge is now open for submissions! Entries are due by January 15, 2016. Learn...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 November 2015
I spent the last few days in Phoenix Arizona at the fall board meeting of the Computer Science Teachers Association. It was a very busy couple of days and I got...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are there some students who can't learn how to code?
Are there some students who can't learn how to code? Mark Guzdial asks that question on his blog and says that “Teachers must always answer "No!"” There is some...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Do We Still Need Computer Science Teachers?
These days it seems like “how to learn coding yourself” opportunities are everywhere. There are MOOCs from major universities, code.org (http://code.org) has great...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts On Old Software–Why We Need Documentation
A former student sent me a links today - NASA seeks programmer fluent in 60-year-old languages to work on Voyager My first thought was that I know FORTRAN and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 November 2015
Wow! It’s November already. My school’s first quarter is done (I’ll finish updating grades today I hope), Halloween is over and so is Daylight savings time. And...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning By Teaching
One of the best things about teaching is students asking questions that never occurred to you. I learned several new things today. Students always seem to have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 November 2015
I’m writing this post from a hotel in Chicago. I’m here for some meetings which I’ll be sure to blog about later. I left my power cord home so this may be a short...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Would You Like a Hint?
Students ask me why their program doesn’t work all the time. Sometimes they ask me as soon as a problem pops up. Usually they work on it themselves for a while....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TechPrep -- a website to help people start programming careers
Facebook entered the efforts to help more people learn about programming yesterday with a new website. “TechPrep -- a website to help people start programming careers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson