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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
CSTA 2015 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Time flies when you’re having fun. It seems like just yesterday I got home from this summer’s CSTA conference. But it has actually been a while. And then yesterday...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hacking Away at Little Problems
We have a fairly nice system for student information and the like. It is not perfect but then what system is? For example, our student management system will output...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Widget–CS Teaching Tips
I added a new widget to my blog last night. It is connected to CS Teaching tips which is a webpage and Twitter account – @CSTeachingTips. The widget provides aCS...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why AP
Sometimes you miss something by reading a blog post too early. Such is the case with a recent post by Mark Guzdial - Python is the most popular intro language:Laura...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links–18 August 2014
Seems like I spent all my time last week doing last minute tasks before school starts. Getting cars inspected and reregistered for example. And a haircut that my...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning By Doing Works for Adults Too
Over the last year or so I have had a number of meetings and conversations with school leaders about using social media. One of my first questions is always “who...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 August 2014
One more week until I return to school for the new year. I’ve been spending a lot of time planning and thinking about how to teach things better this year thanThe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why You Need Parentheses
A friend posted the following image on Facebook. You’ve probably seen like it. Actually I have posted similar myself.The result, as you might expect, was people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It's Hard To Make Easy Projects
I’ve been working on my lesson plans for this year and one thing I always struggle with is creating projects. Oh I have lots in my tool box but I am always looking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 August 2014
It was both a slow week and a busy week last week. Slow online for the most part. There were a couple of big events that friends of mine were at but I was home....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Troubles with Tutorials
The first thing I ran into with regards to programming tutorials last week was this tweet and accompanying image. 99% of #programming tutorials on the web pic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 July 2014
The highlight of last week was a two-hour workshop on TouchDevelop which I presented to teachers who are part of the New York City Department of Education Software...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Geeks Pick Nits Even On Jokes
I posted this following image on my Facebook page. Comments came immediately. First one was something like “only one step?” Another said the method should be...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Whack A Mole Project
I’ve done variations in Whack A Mole over there years. I did a Whack Something Game for Windows Phone 7 some years ago for example. But somehow I put it aside and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Scalable Programming Projects
One of the things I look for in a project is that it is extensible. That means that a reasonable and simple version can be done but that students who want to do...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One semi colon away from disaster
At a recent workshop Alexander Repenning said that sometimes teaching programming is “one semi colon away from disaster.” How true that is. Minor syntax issues,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 July 2014
What a week I had last week. The CSTA Annual Conference, the National CS Principles Summit and then the CSTA Board meeting. I need a rest. I tweeted a lot fromB...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Save The Date for the 2015 CSTA Annual Conference
Yes, we just finished the Computer Science Teachers Association conference. And it was a great one. You can get copies of many of the presentation decks at http...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2014 Day Two
CSTA like so many great conferences is as much about learning from face to face informal conversations as it is about formal sessions. I’ve been able to talk with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson