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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 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
Interesting Links 16 June 2014
School is out! Well after lunch today school is over for the year for me and my school. I’ll miss the kids over the summer but I’m ready for a break. I plan toOffice...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I Am Not a Bug
The term "undocumented feature" is a humorous term for something that was not planned in software. OH for sure there can be features added to a product that are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Office Mix and Binary Numbers
One of the things I worked on this year was sharing resources with students. I uploaded all my PowerPoint presentations to our learning management system for example...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code 2014
The latest announcement from code.org hit my email inbox yeterday. Looks like they are planning for a bigger better "Hour of Code" for CS education week this fall...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Good Things Are Happening in APCS
The Advanced Placement Computer Science exam was graded last week. Well the free response part was anyway. I had a number of friends there and got some news from...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
That Was (Not) Easy
Someone mentioned in a comment somewhere (I wish I could find a link) that sometimes they create a project for students that they haven’t built themselves first...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 June 2014
Well my seniors are done. Graduation was yesterday. The Salutatorian had several interesting and funny things to say. Perhaps because it is a Catholic school some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
On Being a Software Developer
Recently Mark Guzdial had a post called High school CS teachers need to read and trace code, not develop software that got me thinking along some new lines. Working...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Principles Summit–Virtually
In case you are not a CSTA member (why not?) and didn’t get the email this looks pretty interesting. In a new twist for 2014, CSTA is thrilled to invite youvirtual...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Matter of Focus
My students are wrapping up the year with final projects. For the most part these are great learning experiences. Sometimes though students get hung up on the wrong...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
I’ve had some fun with a line from the movie The Princess Bride and meme generator below inspired by working with students. Programming is so non intuitive for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 June 2014
I used to tell people that I liked to blog because I knew that classroom teachers didn’t have a lot of time to look for things. As the school year comes to a close...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back To Move Forward
I think most teachers do some introspection at the end of the school year about how things went for them. They think about what worked and what didn’t work so that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 May 2014
There are still a couple of weeks of school for me and my students. Well the seniors are done with their finals on Friday but underclassmen have some time after...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson