Computer Science Teacher

In theory, theory and practice as the same. In practice, all too often, they are not. Sometimes running a simulation can help one separate t...

Random numbers are fun. Really they are. They are at the heart of gambling for sure but they are also a key part of what is called a Monte C...

I made mention of this announcement when it was first made in October. I hope that if you are at a high school in Illinois you know about t...

The Internet was a buzz last week with reports of a study done on the effects of environment on women’s interest in computer science. (Links...

I’m going to FTEC in Orlando this January. This will be my first time at FETC and I’m looking forward to it. There isn’t usually a lot for c...

Years ago I saw a cartoon, it was probably in The New Yorker, that was set in what looked like an excusive upper class businessmen’s club. ...

Kathleen Weaver , one of the many amazing computer science teachers in Texas these days, has been using XNA Game Studio with her students. R...

Last week was the first ever national Computer Science Education week in the US. I Twittered (tweeted?) quite a few links to announcements,...

Did you ever wonder why a programming language did or did not have a specific feature? Have you ever thought about what a first/learning pro...

I love to look at the logs to see how people find this blog. Some of the search strings people use amaze me. Sometimes I’m not sure which t...

One of the people I really admire is Erik Meijer who is an absolutely brilliant computer scientist and outstanding communicator. And a rea...

A lot of links last week that anticipate Computer Science Education week came my way. Well you’d expect that and I have a number of them ...

The Computer Science Education week web site is now live at http://www.csedweek.org/ Some good stuff there. I especially like the “ Why co...

Just for fun, at your next faculty meeting or school board meeting try the following out. Let’s drop or at least reduce the English req...

One of the links floating around a lot recently has been this article from the recent Microsoft Professional Developers conference - Microso...

I see over on the SIGCSE 2010 blog that early registration for SIGCSE is now open. In my opinion SIGCSE is the most important computer sci...

Short work week last week. Not a lot of great links showing up in my RSS reader or my email inbox. It seems like a lot of people took the we...

Earlier in the week I received an email telling me that nomination for this year’s Edublogger Awards are now open. Some really great blogs ...

Every so often someone suggests a project and I ask myself “ why wasn’t I clever enough to think of that?” Actually it happen more often t...

Ever wonder how they get the sound effects for car racing video games? A Tesla gets recorded for Microsoft games . Interesting story really....