Computer Science Teacher

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

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Students 2 Business - Its About the Jobs

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Students 2 Business (S2B for short) is "a Microsoft® Community Initiative designed to connect Microsoft partners and customers wit...
Friday, March 07, 2008

Ex-Apple Guy Interviews Steve Ballmer

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I never thought I'd see Guy Kawasaki at a Microsoft event but it happened. Earlier this week Guy Kawasaki interviewed Steve Ballmer at ...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

XNA - Games for the Zune

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Well there are always questions about an handheld game device from Microsoft. Well this isn't it. But what the XNA team did announce tod...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

DreamSpark - Microsoft Gives Software to Students for Academic Use

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OK so it is already all over the blogosphere that  Bill Gates announced a new program called DreamSpark to give software to students. (The...

Science and Engineering Links

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Did you know that next week is National Engineering Week ? Well it is. So in honor of that a few links. Check out the Try Science web site...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Build, Craft, Hack, Play, Make!

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It looks like Maker Faire is starting to ramp up for this coming May. I'm trying to see if I can justify a trip out to California for i...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Some Interesting and Useful Curriculum Links - Visual Basic, XNA, Other Intro CS

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Over the holiday I did some browsing around the Internet. I found a couple of new blogs to follow, read some posts by people who hadn't ...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Projects for a Programming Course

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At their best teacher blogs are full of information and idea sharing that benefits other teachers. For teachers of computer science or compu...
Friday, December 14, 2007

Robotics and .NET Fundamentals Series

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Sometimes it really pays to have smart friends and let them figure things out for you even if you don't really plan it that way. Early t...

Popfly Goes to School

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Popfly is a very easy to use and yet powerful mashup tool for non-professional developers. It's really a lot of fun to use and lets ama...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Max Builds a PC

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My friend Mac is building a PC from parts. Over at Channel 8 ( First post in the series here ) he's looking for recommendations and su...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

How Do I - Videos

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I found out about a bunch of new videos that show how to do different things with different Microsoft development products. They all run be...
Saturday, December 01, 2007

Top November Posts

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November was an interesting month in some ways. It seems that when I really for for an opinion piece it attracts more attention in both read...
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...
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