Computer Science Teacher

Two of the things that have driven a lot of computing innovation are games and graphics. The two are closely related of course and who unive...

A friend of mine posted the picture below on Facebook recently. About as basic, and wrong, random number generator as one can get. But it br...

First it was an earthquake and now they are talking about a hurricane hitting much of the east coast. Some places have been hit hard already...

This is a big topic on my mind of late. There is some discussion of this in the comments on my Boring Projects post and well as some respon...

Recently someone I really respect posted a recommendation against using Visual Basic saying “ I find most textbooks for Visual Basic to have...

Earthquake! Yes earthquakes are rare in New England where I live but we had one last week. Shook things up a bit. Not injuries or damage as ...

One of the areas on Facebook is called Trust Me I’m an “Engineer .” where humorous (for sometimes interesting definitions of humorous) image...

I set out for my daily walk today hoping for inner peace and calm. What I found was a bit of inspiration. About a half mile into my walk I s...

In professional development there is always a trade off between what features to have in a product and when you want to ship the product. Da...

I have real mixed feelings about the Advanced Placement exams in general and the AP Computer Science exam in particular. Very mixed. There a...

Last week I was browsing though my RSS feeds and came across a post called Python Gangnam Style! that was all about playing music with Pyth...

My friend Ed Donahue asked me to pass along some information about Apps4VA and their upcoming hackathons this weekend. Apps4VA sounds pre...

Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. One of the things I did was to attend the New Hampshire TechFest at a local high school. NH Te...

Back at the beginning of my career a hiring manager told me that he almost recommended that I not be interviewed because I had been formally...

There has been talk about a high school computer science honor society among the high school CS education community for years. For the mos...

I’ve been maintaining a very loosely curated list of computer science educators and resources on Twitter for a while now. I make no claim t...

Time for a reminder. Now that school has been underweight for a while you may have identified some young women who would be good candidates ...

One of my former students is the CTO of a startup these days. He posted today about the need for all of the employees of his company to be “...

Several years ago a teacher asked me to help with a problem one of her students was having. The student had decided to combine all of the se...

It’s the Columbus Day holiday in the US. Or as we call it in my family Leif Landed First day.  Either way a lot of schools have a holiday to...