Computer Science Teacher

This is Alfred Thompson's blog about computer science education and related topics.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Math Add-in for Microsoft Word

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Here is a little goody for all of you out there (especially you math teachers) who are always struggling to add mathematical things (formula...

WiiMote (Wii game controller) and Microsoft Robotics Studio

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I've written before about the Wii controller with links to software that allows a programmer to use a WiiMote with a Windows computer ...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Visual Studio Express 2008 is out

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Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufacturing this week and there is a lot of news about it around the Internet. Almost lost in the excit...

Channel 8 at European TechEd

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The Dutch Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) have been at the European Teched event interviewing attendees and presenters. These interviews a...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Let's Find a Reason It Can't Work

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The Internet is hard on ideas. It's hard on people who express ideas. OK maybe I mean people who participate in conversations (and rants...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Tomorrow's Book Today

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Amazon has a new electronic book called Kindle . It looks pretty good and has good battery life and can store a lot of books. The wireless I...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Carrot, Stick, Attract, Retain, Boys, Girls

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Is the shortage of women in computer science caused by a failure to attract women or are women being chased away? That seems to be at the he...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Your way, Your play, XNA: Modify a 2D Game in 10 minutes

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Short attention span? No problem. Hilary Pike has created a short quick moving demo/screen cast on modifying an existing 2-dimensional XNA...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Cy Khormaee Now Blogging

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Cy Khormaee , new to my team, just opened a blog. Welcome to the blogosphere Cy!
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Computer Technology, Agriculture and Africa

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My friend and co-worker Philip DesAutels is in Africa this week. Philip has a wide range of experience including some time in the Peace Cor...

Creating An Install Project and More

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This is sort of a two for one post. The first thing that happened is that Clint Rutkas created a little program to delay the start up of al...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Hilary Pike now blogging

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So it looks like Hilary Pike has decided to give blogging a real try. Welcome Hilary!
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Good Times at a Halo 3 Party

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Dan Waters has a video blog about a recent Halo 3 Party he helped pt together. It highlights one of the cooler parts of his (and to some ex...

Oh for the simple early days of programming

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The other day at a conference ( ReMIX07 - what a great event) a couple of us had a brief chat about the old days. I think it was started by...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Clint Rutkas Joins Microsoft

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I'm happy to welcome Clint Rutkas to the Academic Relations Team at Microsoft. Clint has an interesting blog at http://www.betterthanev...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Mr T's Rants

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Who is this Mr T (or is it Mister T ) and why does he fascinate me so much? OK I'm playing with you. I just want to see how long this ta...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Microsoft Web Experience events in LA & Denver

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Let it not be said that I am not a team player. Apparently Kirk Allen was accused of running a stealth event that not enough people knew ab...
Monday, April 02, 2007

Email Addresses

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I was reminiscing about email today. I thought I would give a history lesson in case some of you were having trouble getting to sleep.  As ...
Monday, March 12, 2007

More bloggers in my group

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Jim Pinkelman is my manager. He hasn't said much yet but when he does I think it will be worth it. Dan Waters is new the company, new ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Edwin Guarin now blogging

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Edwin Guarin the newest member of the ADE team is now blogging. As for me I am still active at my high school computer science blog but I a...
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