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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 5, 2014 at 05:54 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 2, 2014 at 11:05 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 29, 2014 at 11:28 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 28, 2014 at 05:55 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 25, 2014 at 10:52 AM
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From the CSTA announcement list. Bootstrap is a curricular module for students ages 12-16, which teaches algebraic and geometric concepts through computer programming...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 23, 2014 at 05:44 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 22, 2014 at 06:23 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 21, 2014 at 08:20 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 15, 2014 at 09:34 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 14, 2014 at 08:37 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 14, 2014 at 08:19 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 14, 2014 at 08:15 AM
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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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 10, 2014 at 08:47 AM
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We’re learning about classes and related topics like data hiding and using methods rather than public data in my programming class these days. One of the students...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 9, 2014 at 06:09 AM
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Mike Zamansky announced this program on his blog yesterday. (Announcing SHIP) It sounds amazing. It’s being run at St Joseph’s College in Brooklyn and is for students...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 8, 2014 at 06:06 AM
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Spring has sprung. Well at least the last of the snow is gone. Seems like late here but it hardly matters as I’ve been busy with school anyway. Seems like lastwhat...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 7, 2014 at 09:52 AM
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I’m teaching a little web development to my freshmen this week. Not a lot – it’s not a web development course – just enough to give them some idea of what is behind...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 2, 2014 at 05:32 AM
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I get questions. By email, twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and more. Seems like they come just about everyway. And I love it. Recently I got a question about vo-tech...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 1, 2014 at 06:15 AM
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I’ve been writing more code then usual lately. Mostly just for the fun of it. That means less time on the Internet collecting good links. But it’s been great getting...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 31, 2014 at 05:42 AM
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A post I wrote some time ago bemoaning the lack of new operating systems has been the most frequently viewed post of all time on this blog. Today I’m posting some...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 28, 2014 at 12:20 PM