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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
Math, Physics, Art and the Spirograph
When I was a kid there were a number of spirograph toys available. Some, like the ones available today, had gears and circles with sprockets. One very old toy that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup Kodu Challenge 2013
I wasn’t sure if this sort of event would happen again but it has. I saw the announcement yesterday. If you have students looking for a challenge and they are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Apply to be a Pilot Sites for the AP CS Principles Course
As you may know a new Advanced Placement Computer Science, usually called AP CS Principles, is being developed by/for the College Board. The College Board is now...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 March 2013
Posting this a bit late today. I had a very busy weekend which included some snowboarding. That means I was much too tired and sore yesterday to get this ready....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop–This is Cool!
I finally decided to get serious about learning TouchDevelop this week. I have sort of toyed with it from time to time and I’ve seen the development team do demos...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Real Life Is …
One of my favorite sayings is that “real life is an open book test.” I don’t remember where or when I first heard it but it is something I repeat rather regularly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lecturing or Conversing
I was reading one of those articles about Bill Gates talking about education again. I should stop that. The man is a genius in many areas but education is not one...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 CSTA National Survey on High School Computer Science
The Computer Science Teachers Association is conducting their annual computer science survey right now. CSTA members should have received notice in our email. I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 March 2013
It’s Women’s History Month and last week was International Women’s Day. Not surprisingly that there was a lot of talk about women in computer science in particular...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s not lazy – its efficient
Years ago I worked for a company that sold computers, software, terminals and many other things. A terminal salesperson worked out of the same office I did and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/IEEE-CS CS2013 Ironman-v1.0 draft released
Those of you interested in undergraduate computer science education will be interested in the latest draft of the ACM/IEEE-CS CS 2013 curriculum recommendations...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Do We Teach Debugging?
I spent some time debugging student code today. Actually I spend a lot of time debugging student code these days. It is not something I mind at all. I see it as...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 March 2013
Last week was school vacation week. Like a lot of teachers I spent the week catching up on things around the house. For me that meant spending a coup[le of days...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 CSTA Annual Conference Registration Open
Just announced via the CSTA member email system – registration is now open for this summer’s Annual CSTA conference. Some great sessions in the line up. Something...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Most Schools Don’t Teach
Code.org has released their highly anticipated video to encourage more people, especially students, to learn how to code for computers. It’s one of the better videos...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 February 2013
School vacation week for me this week. Trying to get some work done around the house, relax a bit, grade a bunch and of course plan for the rest of the semester...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking At Curriculum From Different Angles
My job at Microsoft was to promote the use of Microsoft tools for computer science education. It was a great job and I was promoting tools that I had and that I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Obama Endorses Programming Classes in High School
On one hand this is great. The President of the United States promotes computer science education. On the other hand he talks about it primarily as a vocational...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Friendly Survey of Programming Languages
I was sitting around thinking about high school computer science curriculum last night when the idea of a programming languages survey course came to mind. I’m...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson