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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 1 June 2015
Two more weeks of school for me. Our seniors graduate this weekend and then we have final exams for everyone else. The year has flown by. Soon I’ll be into summer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You Get What You Pay For
I haven’t been blogging much this week. In part that is being busy with the year ending at school. In part it is because the connection between Windows Live Writer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 May 2015
Memorial Day in the US today. We remember those who died in battle fighting for our country. A somber day in some ways. In other, it makes the unofficial startWhat...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science and ?
Several conversations lately have me thinking about combining computer science with other subjects in school. My thinking regularly comes back to that for a number...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Expanding Computing Education–Are We Forgetting Rural Schools
One big announcement last week was College Board and Code.org announc[ing] an alliance to improve diversity in computer science. The plan is to partner with the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 May 2015
Last week I made my travel arrangements for the Annual CSTA Conference. Less than two months away and I’m really looking forward to it. I’ll also be at ISTE this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coming soon – 2015 Computer Science Teachers Association’s annual conference
With the Computer Science Teachers Association’s annual conference coming up in July there are a few things we thought you should know now that we’ve sprung into...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code, Compile, Test, Repeat
I came across this image on Facebook recently and it got me thinking. My first old guy “get off my lawn” thought was that when I started coding one was lucky if...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 May 2015
Last week was special. Teacher Appreciation week at many schools. International Star Wars Day (May the Fourth). And of course the Advanced Placement Computer Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Red Green–A different Hello World
Hello World is more or less the ubiquitous first program for most development environments. I hate it. It’s boring. It made a lot of sense in a command line environment...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Office Mixes for Learning TouchDevelop
While looking for other things (you know how that goes) I found a series of Office Mixes that teach how to program using TouchDevelop. They are mixed in as part...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 May 2015
Last week was school vacation week and I had a lot of plans. I threw them all away and decided to spend a couple of days getting over a nasty stomach bug. I think...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Office Mixes for Learning C#
Over the last few months I have recorded a few Office Mixes for use in my C# class. I’ve also built up a nice collection of PowerPoint presentations which I have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
HOW OLD DO I LOOK?
Microsoft announced a new web site yesterday that tries to guess the age of people in images. Well guess is probably not the right word. I’m sure the researchers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 April 2015
Here in New Hampshire we are on school vacation this week. Seems like a lot of places were on vacation last week. Like a lot of teachers I will be spending break...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More With TouchDevelop
The more I use TouchDevelop the more I learn about it. The more I learn about it the more I want to use it. For example, groups. I’ve known about groups for a while...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Tell Your 1:1 Program is Going to Fail
I saw this question on Facebook. My schools going to all iPad next year for the students. Can we do the coding that we need to for AP Computer Science on an iPad...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
#CSK8 has been nominated for a Bammy Award in Education
#CSK8 is the Twitter chat community and online discussion that is being run by the CSTA K8 task force. In a short period of time it has built a large communityAbout...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Trust and Computing
I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of trust in computing lately. It’s actually something I started thinking about almost 40 years ago when I had my first...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson