Computer Science Teacher

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

Monday, May 30, 2011

Interesting Links Post 31 May 2011

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Since yesterday was Memorial Day I posted something just a bit fun and saved my links post for today.  I hope those of you in the US enjoyed...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Imagine Cup WorldWide Game Competition Finalists 2011

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Andrew Parsons is the Game Capitan for the Worldwide Imagine Cup Game competition. This gives him a good close look at the competitors espec...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Interesting Links 23 May 2011

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Every week end I go to grab by Twitter stream and the notes I have taken as ask myself “Do I have any thing interesting this week?” Invariab...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Seth Godin Needs To Visit a Library

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Now I am married to a school librarian so a) I have a bias toward them and b) I have a bit of an idea of how they think and how libraries op...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Interesting Posts 16 May 2011

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Computer Science teacher Pat Yongpradit   seems to be everywhere on the educational blogosphere lately. I posted about his 5-6 week XNA cour...
Friday, May 06, 2011

Teaching Students To Create Their Own Business

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One of the things that I tell students when I do career talks is that it has never been easier to start a software business than it is today...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Most Read Posts–April 2011

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I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the top read blog posts from April 2011. I look at both web statistics and RSS statistic...
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...
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