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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 14, 2014 at 09:55 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 13, 2014 at 04:20 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 13, 2014 at 05:56 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 12, 2014 at 08:20 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 10, 2014 at 06:19 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 9, 2014 at 06:14 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 6, 2014 at 05:47 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 5, 2014 at 06:06 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 4, 2014 at 06:14 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 3, 2014 at 06:21 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 2, 2014 at 09:33 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 28, 2014 at 10:15 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 26, 2014 at 05:41 AM
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Mark Guzdial linked to a post about Technology’s Man Problem yesterday and highlighted one piece of it. It really got me thinking. a commenter calling himself...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 21, 2014 at 06:08 AM
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of how we teach computer science or perhaps just programming to younger students. Some of it brought on my the online debate...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 20, 2014 at 06:05 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The only blog post I wrote was the Monday morning links post. I feel like I’m slacking off but I sure was overloaded with other things to do last week. Some ofReading...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 19, 2014 at 05:40 AM
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Looking at my Facebook timeline it looks like schools in the southern US are starting to wrap up for the year already. My school has about another month or so.National...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 12, 2014 at 06:09 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Some years ago my wife bought me a binary clock. I have it sitting on my desk at school facing the students. It drives the students crazy. What is it? A clock....Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 8, 2014 at 01:55 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I stumbled upon a really good talk by Simon Peyton Jones from Microsoft Research about teaching computer science early on today. In it he talks about some things...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 7, 2014 at 09:47 AM
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Earlier this evening Chris Stephenson, the founding executive director of the Computer Science Teachers Association, announced her resignation from the CSTA. (Looking...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 5, 2014 at 07:17 PM