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Interesting Links Post 13 June 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links Post 13 June 2011

I spent part of this weekend installing new kitchen cabinets. Not all of us computer geeks are afraid of hand tools and physical labor. On the other hand I

What is Digital Literacy? And is it enough?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What is Digital Literacy? And is it enough?

Someone on twitter sent out a link to an article/video from the BBC called Are children becoming 'digitally illiterate'? that got me thinking. What does it mean...

Computer Related Finalists in the Innovative Education Forum 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computer Related Finalists in the Innovative Education Forum 2011

Yesterday Microsoft announced the second round of finalists for the Innovative Education Forum. Over in the Teacher Tech blog they listed brief summaries of all...

TouchStudio
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

TouchStudio

OK you have a smart phone and you want to create an application for it. But you don

Programming is for Girls
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Programming is for Girls

Fair warning: Some gross generalizations and exaggeration for emphasis follow. But some valid points I think. I wrote my first computer program over 35 years...

Interesting Links Post
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links Post

Last week I celebrated eight years at Microsoft. I still miss the students which makes the guest talks I do in schools particularly valuable to me. Interestingly...

Student Insiders and Imagine Cup Game Teams
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Student Insiders and Imagine Cup Game Teams

I thought I might highlight a few student related things going on at Microsoft these days.  I

So You Want To Teach Your Kids To Program?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

So You Want To Teach Your Kids To Program?

In all honestly I tend to avoid Slashdot. Oh I scan it for the news from time to time but I work hard at avoiding the comments and avoid the Q&A forums. Why? The...

Random Hacks of Kindness June 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Random Hacks of Kindness June 2011

Are you interesting in public service, of  using you computer science, web development,  information technology and other

Atlanta (Georgia) Area Windows Phone Camp for Students
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Atlanta (Georgia) Area Windows Phone Camp for Students

Tara Walker is running a three-day Microsoft Mobile Development appLab at the Library at the Atlanta-Fulton County Library June 7 - 9th : 9:30am - 4:00pm This...

Interesting Links Post 31 May 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links Post 31 May 2011

Since yesterday was Memorial Day I posted something just a bit fun and saved my links post for today.  I hope those of you in the US enjoyed a three day weekend...

XNA and Visual Basic
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

XNA and Visual Basic

I have been playing with Visual Basic and XNA for a few days now. Support has been out for VB and XNA for a little while now but the release of the Windows Phone...

Windows Phone 7 Games in Visual Basic
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Windows Phone 7 Games in Visual Basic

I’ve been working all week in C#. Now C# is a wonderful language if you are going to use semi-colons and curly braces. It fixes almost all of the issues I haveYou...

US Teams in the Worldwide Imagine Cup Finals 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

US Teams in the Worldwide Imagine Cup Finals 2011

The Worldwide finalists for all categories of the Imagine Cup are out and you can read all of the amazing projects at the Imagine Cup Blog. There are 124 teams...

Never Underestimate a 13-Year Old With a Computer and a Dream
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Never Underestimate a 13-Year Old With a Computer and a Dream

Now I taught middle school during the longest year of my life. And I do guest talks at middle schools all the time. But honestly I do not have the knack for doing...

Imagine Cup WorldWide Game Competition Finalists 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Imagine Cup WorldWide Game Competition Finalists 2011

Andrew Parsons is the Game Capitan for the Worldwide Imagine Cup Game competition. This gives him a good close look at the competitors especially the finalists....

Interesting Links 23 May 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 23 May 2011

Every week end I go to grab by Twitter stream and the notes I have taken as ask myself

Data! I need more data!
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Data! I need more data!

Big data! I don

How Many Letters In An Alphabet
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How Many Letters In An Alphabet

My mind tends to wonder a bit when I drive long distances. Sometimes it goes in very weird directions. For some reason I started thinking about encoding characters...

Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers

Paul Vick posted these Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers earlier this week and I have been thinking about them a lot. They make sense to me. As a professional...
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