Computer Science Teacher

As promised here are a bunch more links that I hope you will find interesting and useful. The CSTA blog had a couple of recent posts of in...

I twittered up quite a storm last week. Much of it was because of the US Imagine Cup which I was also blogging a lot about. I was also put...

If you have been reading my blog (or following on Twitter @AlfredTwo) you have been reading about the US Imagine Cup finals. Hopefully you h...

Today I have a presentation to give around mid-day and then I go  home to pack for a trip to Washington DC for the US finals of the Imagine ...

  Microsoft has just released a new free Silverlight 4 Training Kit that walks you through building business applications with Silverlight ...

I was invited to be on a panel at Northeastern University (I was a last minute fill-in but happy to attend) talking about Teaching With Tech...

Well it is official – the final release of Visual Studio 2010 is not available. If your school has an MSDN AA account you can download it f...

What does this say? 01000010 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101001 01100101 It says “Barbie” in Binary coded ASCII. See Barbie Go...

In yet another example of how poorly I do at predicting what is going to be interesting and/or controversial almost no one read and absolute...

Last week I had a chance to hear Larry Hryb (AKA Major Nelson ) of the Xbox Live team talk to a group of college students at Microsoft’s Ca...

Programming phones seems to be the hot new thing these days. Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of free programming tools for th...

Back last November I posted a short link to NASA’s Be A Martian program page. I guess I didn’t realize at the time that there was a progra...

Microsoft is doing a number of things to help people enter and grow in technology careers. Yesterday there was a post on Microsoft On The Is...

Small Basic is not part of the Beginning Developer Learning Center . Looks like the whole landing page for the BDLC has been updated as well...

Well did you watch the Super Bowl? I confess that I did not. I’m just not that into football. Still I had a good weekend and as usual I have...

The Microsoft Corporation, NASA, the Texas Business & Education Coalition, and the State of Texas would like to invite you and your stud...

Have you ever been asked a question that you have been asked time and again but suddenly decided you have a different answer for? One of the...

All sorts of good things last week. Tops among them was a visit to Stevens Institute of Technology for a workshop with a great group of hi...

NPR did a story recently on the computer screens that we see in the movies. You know the ones with big read “Access Denied” messages that lo...

Well the latest batch of DigiGirlz Days are starting to get scheduled. What are DigiGirlz Days? They are fun, interesting and educational e...