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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
Interesting Links 19 October 2015
I played around with social media statistics this weekend. Apparently some 7% of both my Twitter followers and readers of this blog are from the UK. That more than...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Autograders–for good or for evil?
Over 40 years ago I first graded programming projects. As an undergraduate lab assistant I reviewed student projects based on metrics from the professor. The professor...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Project Ideas Are Everywhere
Yesterday, like thousands of other teachers, I was proctoring the PSAT exam. Few things are less exciting that watching a room full of students fill in little circles...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Just Don’t Turn Them Off
A couple of years ago two of my students were discussing my influence on motivating students into computer science. One was giving me much too much credit. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Live Coding and the Teachable Moment
The smart thing is to practice any code writing one is going to demonstrate in front of an audience. When I was was working in industry and preparing demos for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 October 2015
I’m not in school today. Columbus Day holiday here in the US. A bigger deal is that my grandson stayed over last night. I love being a grandfather. He’s only aUS...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Traits Indicate Potential in Computer Science?
Last week I was a bit critical of a study about traits that make for good computer science students or programmers (How NOT To Tell If Someone Is Cut Out For Computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Inside Look at Being A Computer Science Teacher
Garth Flint is one of my favorite bloggers. Garth teaches computer science in a smallish private Catholic school in Montana. This week he wrote a pair of articles...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How NOT To Tell If Someone Is Cut Out For Computer Science
Recently “Code School, a Pluralsight company and online learn-to-code destination” released the results of a study of sorts they did to try and determine who were...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Want a Job Expanding Computer Science Education?
The TEALS program (www.tealsk12.org) is looking for regional managers to help them expand their program of placing industry professionals in schools to work with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I get letters
Doug Peterson occasionally writes “replies” to spam comments that are left on his blog. He does it so well that although I love the idea I don’t want to duplicate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 October 2015
School is really rolling along for me. Last week we had our first progress reports due. This was followed up by a number of kids looking to make up missing work...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
BBC Micro:Bit News–Lots Happening
News about the BBC Micro:Bit is probably more useful to my United Kingdom readers than those of us in the rest of the world but I think it is interesting to many...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Software Performance–It’s Complicated
One of the things I don’t have near enough time to talk about in a one semester first programming course is performance. Arguably that is much more real computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
But I’ve Always Done It This Way
I’ve had my students working on a little exercise this week. It’s simple and I know that a lot of teachers use similar projects. The idea is to build a triangle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How the Internet works Video Series from code.org
Code.org announced a set of videos about “How the Internet works.” today. This set of short (6-7 minutes long) videos explain many of the key concepts that make...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 September 2015
Still a lot of news going on about New York City's plans as well as other places also looking at adding more computer science education. It seems like more andCode...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ethics and Computer Science
How many times have we heard it said “with great power comes great responsibility.” Have you read about the scandal with Volkswagen where they used software tricks...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Virtual BBC Micro:Bit Now in Beta
Curious about the BBC MicroBit? There is a new web site about it that includes a virtual Micro:bit computer. There are tutorials and videos and various other bits...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson