Computer Science Teacher

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

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

DreamSpark, AppHub and Windows Phone Development

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So are your graduating high school seniors bored? or perhaps you are still looking for things to do after the AP CS exam. or maybe you know...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Enter the Student App-a-thon

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Bob Familiar (@ bobfamiliar ) and Lindsay Lindstrom (@ LindsayInPhilly ) have both been blogging about the Windows Phone Student App-a-tho...
Thursday, April 07, 2011

Computer Science Curricula In Flux

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I don’t know when I have ever seen as much going on with computer science curriculum going on at one time. In the K12 space there is an NSF ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Interesting Projects–A Collection

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It seems as though teachers are always looking for new projects to use with students. Projects get stale (at least to a teacher who has been...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

US Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards

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The Imagine Cup is the premier student technology competition in he world. Yeah, I get excited about it. The US finalists in the Software ...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

FutureFed Expert Videos: Dan Kasun on Making Open Government Data Valuable

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Dan Kasun talks about making government information more available and valuable.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Rebirth of DIY Software Development

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In the heady, exciting, almost wild West atmosphere of the early days of PCs it seemed like almost everyone I knew was writing software in h...
Friday, March 04, 2011

Top Read Posts February 2011

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When I look at the blog statistics for my primary blog I am often surprised. Surprised because some posts that I expect a lot from get ignor...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Dream. Build. Play. is back for 2011

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Honestly if you are a student you REALLY want to enter the Imagine Cup game development competition . Really you do. But if you missed som...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Interesting Links 28 February 2011

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Lots of interesting posts by computer science teachers last week. And some news from various sources to share. But let’s start with the tea...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

FizzBuzz–A Programming Question

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Projects or exercises that lend themselves to many different “correct” solutions are just about the best sorts of learning experiences I can...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Triangle Shooter–An XNA Windows Phone Game By Kenny Spade

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Kenny Spade is a Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist out in California who has been writing a series of blog posts that help one learn ...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Making the Case for Becoming a Computer Science Teacher

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Mark Guzdial asks the question What’s the argument for becoming a computer science teacher? on his blog. It’s a good question. While as a f...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Ed Donahue Joins the Microsoft Academic Team

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Ed Donahue (her real name is Erin but she goes by Ed – go figure) has joined the Microsoft academic team as an academic developer evangelis...
Saturday, January 01, 2011

My Most Read Posts of 2010

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For the most part I want to focus on the future and not the past. But I did want to take one look back at traffic to my computer science tea...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Microsoft bliink…a web design competition for high school students

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I’ve talked about Bliink in the past. (See bliink ) Over the last couple of years Microsoft has run this web development competition in scho...
Sunday, December 05, 2010

Interesting Links Post December 6th 2010

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Well it is Computer Science Education week . Are you doing anything at your school for it this week? I attended three different CSTA chapter...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Computer Science Teacher Blog posts for November 2010

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My main blog is elsewhere so I thought I might try something new this month. What follows is an index to the blog posts I wrote during Novem...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Pledge to Participate in and be a Supporter of Computer Science Education Week!

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Computer Science Education week is December 5-11, 2010 this year. ACM and the chair of CSed Week steering committer are asking people to si...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Wisdom in Lists–Really?

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Like a lot of people I have an affection for lists that condense a lot of wisdom into a brief set of statements or items. Some time ago I wr...
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