Computer Science Teacher

Friday is not the day to talk about thinking. I think a lot of people in general and students in particular are looking to stop thinking rig...

Is school done for the year where you are? Here in the northeast of the US there is another week or two to go. Teachers are finishing up the...

My main blog, which has most of my posts, now has a new URL because of a migration. Please link to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth for my ...

I tried to take most of last week off. Well I guess I actually did officially take most of the week off but somehow I spent more time than I...

It’s Memorial Day in the US and today we remember and honor the men and women who fought and died for our country. My Dad is a World War II ...

I have quite an eclectic mix of links this week. Some career information, some Windows Phone programming links, Internet safety, school IT i...

You have to love the Internet and especially twitter. You can hear about things that you’d never hear about from the main stream media. For ...

Last week was a struggle for me both blogging and otherwise. A lot of stuff going on at work and at home. Plus of course I spent a lot of my...

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...