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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
Programming Competition as Learning
As I write this I am at St Joseph
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Always Mount A Scratch Monkey
Do today
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Interesting Posts 16 May 2011
Computer Science teacher Pat Yongpradit seems to be everywhere on the educational blogosphere lately. I posted about his 5-6 week XNA course curriculum last week...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Returning Data From A Second Form
The other day I received a query about using second forms in Visual Basic. I found a link to some examples and passed it along but it left me unsettled. The teacher...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
University Computer Science Faculty Blogs
I read a lot of blogs. Perhaps too many. But there are a few blogs I could not do without. I thought I might do a series of recommendations on different types of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Can You Do With What You Know?
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Computer Science As Competitive Sport
I was reading Tracey Armstrong's blog this morning. He was writing about the end of the Texas CS Competition season. Yep, in Texas there is a Computer Science competition...
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Programming with C# and XNA 0.5: Jump Start
Pat Yongpradit, a talented young HS CS teacher I have written about before, has created a 5 week mini-course on game programming with XNA Game Studio. This course...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 9 May 2011
I had a great week last week. Long but great. I finished up with two conferences where for once I was not presenting. On the other hand the next time I go to either...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Students To Create Their Own Business
One of the things that I tell students when I do career talks is that it has never been easier to start a software business than it is today. Many great companies...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Cup Submission Deadline is May 10th 2011
Just a reminder that the submission deadline for the Microsoft Kodu Cup is next week on May 10th, 2011. There is still time to create a new game with Kodu and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Mid Atlantic Developer Expo is Coming!
This event looks interesting. If you are in the mid-Atlantic (say around Virginia) and interested in a local, reasonably prices and potentially seriously educational...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Not C#
Someone recently passed on same objection to using C# as a first or otherwise early programming language. I hear these sorts of comments all the time and while...
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Most Read Posts
I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the top read blog posts from April 2011. I look at both web statistics and RSS statistics.In some ways I feel...
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Interesting Links 2 May 2011
I had an interesting week last week. Took a couple of vacation days
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Academic Feedback Survey
If you are a computer science or information technology professor/instructor/teacher would you help us out as we make plans for how Microsoft can support you in...
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Where Do Female Computer Scientists Come From
As someone who is mildly addicted to statistics and who has a degree in Sociology (really) I found this article in Fast Company very interesting on several levels...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Problem Solving For All Times
I am not a carpenter. I know carpenters. One of my friends and co-workers is a well-trained restoration carpenter. The work he has done in his own house is to drool...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
DreamSpark, AppHub and Windows Phone Development
So are your graduating high school seniors bored? or perhaps you are still looking for things to do after the AP CS exam. or maybe you know college or high school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson