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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 14 July 2014
Another week another trip. Last one of the summer though. I am at the CSTA Annual Conference today and tomorrow. If you are as well look me up. I’ve wearing myCode...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code Hunt Contest for CSTA 2014 Attendees
Looks like you have to be registered for the CSTA 2014 conference for this one. I am and I’d like a Surface Pro 2 which is the big prize. Code Hunt is a very cool...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Principles Virtual Summit
Are you interested in the new CS Principals course that will be the new (additional) Advanced Placement Computer Science course? CSTA is helping to host a CS Principles...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
As The Top Universities Go So Goes Who Actually?
Philip Guo had an interesting post on the Blog @ CACM titled Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities which summarizes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 July 2014
Did you notice that there wasn’t an interesting links post last week? I’ve been on a real vacation with five days of Walt Disney World after ISTE. I spent a lot...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Languages Can You Find
A little Friday fun from Microsoft. How many programming languages can you find in this puzzle? The first one I found is COBOL FWIW.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science History
Computer science tends to be a very forward looking field. We are constantly looking at the newest things including the future of computers, of programming languages...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Overcoming the Isolation of the Computer Science Teacher
This morning I had a conversation with the other computer science teacher at my school. I told him I wasn't sure what to use for an exercise for my students inLocal...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Don't Panic
I originally wrote this (for the CSTA blog) near the start of the last school year. I have to say though that as this year ends and I am fired up about preparing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Final Thoughts–ISTE 2014
There is still one more day for ISTE but today was the last day for me. My brain is full and I am tired so I am ok with missing another day. ISTE is a huge conference...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Day Two–ISTE 2014
So much of what makes a conference for me is the people. I’m missed the last two ISTE conferences and it has been a while since I have seen a number of people who...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Day One–ISTE 2014
I actually got here on Friday but things started for real this afternoon. More or less. I was not able to get into one big session of mini talks because the room...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Information and Knowledge
The cartoon below by Hugh MacLeod is one of the most shared of his images on the Internet. I have to say I see something different in it every time I view it....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The More Languages Change The More They Stay The Same
One of the links in yesterday’s interesting links post was to a fun questionnaire for computer science people. Guess the Programming Language asks you to identify...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 June 2014
School’s out for the summer! Not that I haven’t been busy doing a lot of stuff I just haven’t had time for during the school year. And this week I am getting ready...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Things You Love Are Made With Code
Well it looks like Google is jumping into the effort to get more girls interested in computer science in a big way. Their new program is called Made with Code.From...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming as Storytelling
Code tells a story. When I hear someone talking about telling a story in code I tend to think of tools like Alice, Kodu and Scratch. After all those are tools with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computers Don’t Do Ambiguity Well
I’ve seen several variations of the image below over the years. The last time I saw it I decided I’m going to use it with my computer science students next year...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Things We Argue About
I shared the image below on my Facebook page last week. As I write this there are ten “Likes” and nineteen comments from my friends. Over how curly braces should...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson