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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
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
Interesting Links 20 April 2015
Daffodils are blooming, golf courses are opening, and buds are appearing on trees and bushes. Looks like we’re going to have spring in New Hampshire after all. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From Tic Tac Toe
The other day I created some teams (3 to 4 students per team) and asked them to create a program to play tic tac toe – a human player against the computer. I have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Self Taught Coders and Ugly Code
I love this cartoon from xkcd. Of course some self taught programmers write really nice looking code. And some formally taught programmers write ugly code. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sometimes It is How You Look At It
A couple of days ago I saw an interesting program on the Small Basic blog. The featured program was one that let a beginner write a turtle graphics program. ITouchDevelop...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Would You Do That?
Students ask interesting questions. One of the more frequent questions they ask is “why would you do that?” Often it comes, not because you didn’t already explain...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 April 2015
Spring may actually be coming. Only of few piles of snow left on my property and I was able to take done the Christmas lights on the tree in front of my house.TouchDevelop...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Help expand K-5 computer science education
Saw this item via the CSTA announcements mailing list. Code.org is hoping to expand K-5 computer science education by recruiting qualified computer science teachers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality–the Future of Education?
Recently a friend of mine sent me a link to a YouTube video about an Augmented Reality Sandbox. It was pretty cool. Cool enough that it looks like a lot of people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
To College or Not To College?
One of the ongoing arguments in computer science is if a university degree or study is necessary in computer science. Basically I think it boils down to “do you...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 April 2015
Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. For me it was a three day weekend. One of the benefits of teaching at a Catholic school is having Good Friday...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s Your Student’s Problem Solving Strategy?
I ran into this Developer’s problem solving sequence list via twitter yesterday. Google Coworkers StackOverflow RTFM Think My students seem to use something...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Vote Now! -- 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Election
My ballot, or rather the coded link to the online voting system, for the 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Election showed up in my email inbox this morning. So I voted...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2015 Board of Directors Elections and Proposed Bylaws Changes
The 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Elections will run from April 2, 2015 to May 4, 2015. In addition to three open positions on the Board, this year's ballot will...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Every Character Matters
My Explorations in Computer Science class is creating web pages this week. This is a fairly short unit and we don’t get very deep at all. Our hope is to give students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 30 March 2015
March is almost over and the snow in my backyard is measured in inches not feet. So spring appears to be coming albeit a bit late. The school year is progressing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Morse Code Project
Project ideas come from all sorts of places. Textbooks, other teachers I work with, blogs, random conversations, conferences (do you know about Nifty Assignments...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
FizzBuzz Revisited
I first blogged about using FizzBuzz in the classroom four years ago when I didn’t have a classroom and students of my own to use it with. (FizzBuzz–A Programming...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Madeup: a Programming Language for Making Things Up
One of the things I have been wondering about is how to make a real connection between 3D printing and learning computer science. Sure most 3D printers are attached...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson