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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
Do It Without Code
One of the projects I like to assign involves counting the letters in a set of text. In other words, how many times does each unique letter appear in a string....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 September 2013
The big deal for me this past weekend was the birth of my first grandchild – a grandson. People are already asking me about what his first technology will be. I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
IBM Master the Mainframe Contest
For something different, IBM is running its tenth Master the Mainframe Contest for students age 13 and up. From the web site: What you need to know: In Fall 2014...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
American Computer Science League Programming Competition
If you didn’t see this in the recent CSTA email blast read below about the ACSL Programming Competition: ACSL has offered a unique programming competition forCSTA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 September 2014
Last week ended with International Talk like a Pirate day. I doubt this would have spread as far as it has without the Internet. Things were very busy for CS education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 Code Hunt Challenge
Microsoft is running their big Imagine Cup international student competition again this year. While some of the events take a lot of work and teams of studentsCode...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So Many Ways To Do The Same Thing
I updated my list of block programming languages and tools yesterday. Two more bringing the total list to 17. Seventeen? Yep. Also this week I learned about Gidget...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teach APCS–A New Shared Resource Site
A few days ago I was contacted by Christina Cacioppo whose day job is an engineer at a startup but who is also helping to teach Advanced Placement Computer Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing 2015
The nomination period for the 2015 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing is now open. If you know a high school woman who is interested in computing nominate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why I Retweet Things From Heavily Followed People
I used to think that retweeting something that someone who had a lot of followers tweeted was a waste of time. After all they reach many more people than I do....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 September 2014
Overshadowed, at least in the US, by the anniversary of the attack by terrorists on New York and the Pentagon, last week also included Programmers Day. Apparently...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Organized
Most years I have had a rough plan of what I wanted to teach. I use the term “plan” loosely there. My granularity tended to be a week rather than a day. I knew...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fun With Code Monkeys
In industry demos I have worked on over the years the people who enter code as part of a demo, usually with someone else explaining what they are doing, are referred...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can I Look That Up?
The other day a student wanted to add something to a program using functionality we had not covered in class. His question to me was “Can I Google how to do that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 September 2014
Busy busy last week. I feel like I am getting back into the rhythm of school but grading takes up a good bit of time. As it always does. Still enjoying working@...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts On The Start of School
Today is the eight day of classes for me. By and large the school year is off to a good start. The students are great. I told my students this morning that I was...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 September 2014
Nothing like easing into the new school year. Last week was a four day week and so is this week. Today being Labor Day in the US most schools are closed. Here in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Yet More Block Programming Languages
I saw this announcement on Facebook first but I probably just missed seeing it on the email list. At this stage I have to wonder why? Why more of the same? Do we...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rotate the Cell Phones
One of the things I am working hard at this year is making things more clear to students. I want them to understand concepts and why they are important and useful...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson