Computer Science Teacher

The big problem I have with using professional quality sample code in class is that it is too professional. By that what I mean is that it i...

I was reading a blog post titled Creating creative portfolios by Deepa Muralidhar the other day that really got me thinking of this whole ...

This is an other post along the lines of We Are Making Things Too Hard more than the more obvious Thinking About Databases . And there may ...

Ruth Hartsook posted links to some interactive web based teaching resources on the Advanced Placement Computer Science discussion forums th...

I was having a talk with a teacher online recently and he reminded me of the Sputnik scare that started a lot of renewed interest in science...

Happy Monday. Well try to start the day with a big smile until you actually feel like smiling. It works. Trust me on that. Last week a lot o...

The Center for Advanced Technology is a great program at Lakewood Senior High School in Florida. Students in this program learn and use tec...

Some years ago I had students write a program that involved managing a checkbook and balancing it. I was so proud of it. Later a student tol...

I once had a conversation with Bill Gates. Yes, in person, face to face. And while I will not go into the whole meeting he said a couple of ...

Last week Mike Zamansky (blog at C'est la Z Twitter @ Zamansky ), who is the head computer science teacher at Stuyvesant High School i...

One of the ways that one can help young women with an interest in computing and related fields is to provide recognition for the world the...

From my point of view the first week of this blog at this location has good well. I realize that I’ve posted a number of longish posts about...

I was talking to a teacher, well chatting online via Facebook actually, and I described what he does as “thinking outside the textbook.” Spe...

I was at the industry advisory board meeting for one of the career/vocational schools I am involved with earlier this week and the topic of ...

One of the things I hear from university computer science faculty on a regular basis is that they have trouble retaining students. What happ...

Yesterday is used a quote from an educator friend of mine that “ I may be the best thing that happens in my students and my staff's live...

It’s the start of a new school year and a new chapter in my life. I thought I would report this from about a year ago. The short version...

Happy Monday! I actually want to start this post with something my friend Paul R Wood ‏ @ paulrwood said on Twitter last week. Paul is a te...

This blog has actually existed for a while but had not been my real blog home. Recent changes (Leaving Microsoft) mean that I can no longer ...

The other day I was looking through the analytics for this blog to see what sort of searches people were doing that let them here. Mostly I ...