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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
Coding as Game Play
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...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 May 2014
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...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 May 2014
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...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can You Explain the Binary Clock?
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....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Case For Lifelong CS Education
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...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Big Change At The CSTA
Earlier this evening Chris Stephenson, the founding executive director of the Computer Science Teachers Association, announced her resignation from the CSTA. (Looking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 May 2014
Well back to school for me today. I didn’t plan on much Internet time last week (school break) but it turned out that the weather was horrible and I stayed indoors...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
BASIC, Computing, and What Have We Lost?
Yesterday, May 1, 2014 was the fiftieth anniversary of the BASIC programming language. Articles about this are abundant on the Internet and rightly so. I link to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
HSCTF: A Cybersecurity Competition For High School Students
HSCTF, an online competition which will educate high school students across the country about computer security, runs from May 18-25, 2014. Competitors in HighHSCTF...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 April 2014
I’m officially on vacation this week. I’m not sure if there will be an interesting links post next week as I plan to take some time off of the Internet. In thehttp...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So Many Myths About Teens and Computing
For the last year and a half I have been back in the classroom as a full-time teacher. It’s a lot of fun working with the students. It’s been a bit eye-opening...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Upcoming Bootstrap Workshops
From the CSTA announcement list. Bootstrap is a curricular module for students ages 12-16, which teaches algebraic and geometric concepts through computer programming...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 8.1 Project my Screen app now available
last week I installed the new Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers on my Nokia phone. There were some pretty cool features there with Cortana (the Siri for Windowsdownload...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 April 2014
I may be getting some spring fever. Next week is our school’s April vacation but mild days and a sunny sky have me wishing I had a bit more time to enjoy the day...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Languages Are Horrible
A bunch of my students in my honors programming class made the same error yesterday. Remarkably today Bertrand Meyer had a post about the very same error in the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links–14 April 2014
Crazy busy weekend for me. The weather was great and I got a lot done outside. Left me too tired to write this up last night. Sorry for the early birds who usually...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code: Echo–Programming Challenge
Using a coding challenge as a promotional event for a movie? This is a new one on me but it looks interesting. What I especially like is that they are sharing resources...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Summer Work for Computer Science and Robotics Instructors
If you are a member of the CSTA you should have received this announcement via email. BUT if you didn’t or you are not a CSTA member (why not?) I thought this worth...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Students Are Not Me
Sometime in elementary school a teacher taught number bases. I was fascinated. It was interesting. It was fun. It made perfect sense to me. I spent hours converting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson