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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
Assigning Projects That Create Programs Students Use
I spend a lot of time thinking about projects for my students. For programming, for applications (Office apps etc.) and just in general. I want to find projects...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 March 2014
Supposedly spring arrived in New England last week. The daffodils working their way up in my front yard suggest that may actually have happened. The piles of snow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Global Forum 2014
Recently Microsoft ran their big annual Microsoft Global Forum which brings together top teachers with technology from all over the world. I really want to go some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Coming to the 2014 CSTA Conference?
As you may have already heard (especially if you are a regular reader of this blog), the Computer Science Teachers Association is in full swing for our 2014 annual...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Changing The View Of Code
The other day I was working on a code project and ran into a frustrating bug. I looked at it for at least an hour and got nowhere with it. I used breakpoints, debugging...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming for the fun of it
Several years ago I was visiting a college and the professor I was meeting with told me he assigned a slot machine project to his students. That struck me a a very...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Teaching Programming Teach Grit?
Grit seems to be the latest educational buzz word these days. According to psychologist Angela Duckworth “grit is a better indicator of GPA and graduation rates...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 March 2014
Apparently the groundhog was right about a long winter. At least for us in New Hampshire. Still plenty of snow on the ground here. Extra incenting to find things...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2014 Board of Directors Candidates
The elections and nominations committee has announced the candidates for the Computer Science Teachers Association board of directors. You can read about the openings...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Resources for Learning Sorts
Sometimes one just doesn’t know what blog posts are going to take off. Last month I wrote a post called Sorting Isn’t Always Simple. It’s been by far the most read...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 March 2014
I spent some time last week trying to keep up with what was happening in Austin Texas at SxSWedu and Atlanta Georgia with SIGCSE by watching Twitter. The good news...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Have We Reached a Consensus on a National CS Curriculum?
Oh boy are things up in the air in the HS CS curriculum these days. While we have some great advice from the CSTA () the implementation of those suggestions are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Any Monkey Can Learn To Code
One never knows where something is going to go on Twitter. I recently tweeted a link to a post by Garth Flint titled Teaching programming is not getting easier@alfredtwo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Famous Women in Computing Infographic
Very nice Famous Women in Computing Infographic from the Anita Borg Institute.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Knowing The Syntax Is Not Enough
This week has been hectic for a lot of reasons. Getting my grades and comments in for progress reports has just been part of it. I haven’t had the time or energy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 March 2014
Last week was school vacation week and I spent a lot more time than usual off line. I even got in a day of snowboarding. I don’t have as many links as usual but...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s OK To Make Mistakes
Me to a student the other day“Several other people made the same mistake. That is why I was able to spot it so quickly.” Invariably that statement gets a look of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code Hunt
Gamification of learning is quite the big deal these days. While there is not unanimous agreement and unambiguous evidence that it works in all cases there is some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Which Comes First–Loops or Arrays?
One of the classing problems in teaching a first course in computer programming is what order to teach various concepts. So many things are interdependent on each...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson