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Game Development with XNA Curriculum
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Game Development with XNA Curriculum

Revitalize your Computer Science program with Game Development with XNA: Semester 1. This exciting and engaging computer science semester course enables students...

Four Dimensional Tic Tac Toe
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Four Dimensional Tic Tac Toe

Back in my college days we had a computer program that played three-dimensional tic tac toe. The game was played in a four space by four space four level cube.There...

Your Chance to Learn Windows Phone Development for Free
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Your Chance to Learn Windows Phone Development for Free

Microsoft is offering a number of FREE Phone Camps around the US. These are fun and interesting workshops

Imagine Cup 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Imagine Cup 2012

Solving the world

What is an app?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What is an app?

In the Mobile Game Design and Mobile App Design categories of the NFTE World Series of Innovation students are asked to design an app or a game for a mobile device...

What is an app?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What is an app?

In the Mobile Game Design and Mobile App Design categories of the NFTE World Series of Innovation students are asked to design an app or a game for a mobile device...

Interesting Links 12 September 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 12 September 2011

After a wonderful long weekend for Labor Day I spent the rest of last week in San Antonio Texas for a series of meetings. This didn

NFTE World Series of Innovation
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

NFTE World Series of Innovation

Innovation! What is is and how can we teach it to children? Big questions today as many of us believe that innovation in many forms is absolutely critical to success...

ScriptTD: Tower Defense Game Creation Made Easy
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

ScriptTD: Tower Defense Game Creation Made Easy

Coding a game from scratch is hard. Make no mistake about there is a lot to it. OF course many people, especially students, think they are all ready to create the...

Windows Phone Mango Jump Start Workshop Now On Video
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Windows Phone Mango Jump Start Workshop Now On Video

IF you missed it live (like I did) you can now view the recording of the Windows Phone Mango Jump Start training on Channel 9. I borrowed these direct links from...

Interesting Links September 6 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links September 6 2011

Labor Day in the US means a three-day weekend and I took advantage of it.  I’d like to make note of a couple of my recent posts that seem to have more in common...

Interesting Links September 6 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links September 6 2011

Labor Day in the US means a three-day weekend and I took advantage of it. That is why this post is a day late. Hope it didn’t ruin anyone’s day. I’d like to make...

Readability in Programming Languages
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Readability in Programming Languages

I saw a side by side comparison of a bunch of scripting languages online recently. Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby My first, and second reaction was...

Private Character Editor
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Private Character Editor

I get questions. Oh boy do I get questions. I don

Python Tools for Visual Studio V1.0 Released
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Python Tools for Visual Studio V1.0 Released

A lot of people are looking into using Python in computer science education these days. Of course a lot of people are also using Visual Studio for Visual BasicPython...

ACSL International Contest About to Begin
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

ACSL International Contest About to Begin

Interested in programming competitions for your students but travel is not in the budget? You may want to look into the ACSL contests. This announcement came via...

Interesting Links 29 August 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 29 August 2011

Hurricane Irene was the big news on the east coast of the US and parts of the Caribbean last week. Oh and there was a surprising east coast earthquake last week...

Interesting Links 29 August 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 29 August 2011

Hurricane Irene was the big news on the east coast of the US and parts of the Caribbean last week. Oh and there was a surprising east coast earthquake last week...

2011 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

2011 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing

Calling all digital divas, web chix & coder girls! It’s time to start thinking about the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing. This is a great program which...

Computational Thinking Leadership Toolkit
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computational Thinking Leadership Toolkit

Computational thinking is, in my opinion at least, a lot more than the latest buzz word or fad in education. It is really at the core of what we need for success...
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