Computer Science Teacher

This came though on one of the mailing lists I am on. I know that some from Canada read this blog (or so the analytic report claims) so I th...

This is something we (Computer Science educators) have needed for a while – a general purpose mailing list to discuss a wider range of CS ed...

Started teaching again full-time today. I’m teaching at the same school I taught at 9.5 years ago when I went to work for Microsoft. There a...

A couple of house keeping items to start. First off, did you know that you can get new blog posts by email? Yep, on the right side of the pa...

Industry and education should be the best of friends. They should both be working towards some common goals. Mutually supportive allies. The...

Tara Walker  is running a series based around MonoGame.  (Updated: 8/26/2013) Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: B...

This is a big deal. With so much attention being focused on the Common Core for education these days understanding where Computer Science fi...

Yesterday I tried out a little web site called Name Tag Analyzer   that looks at your LinkedIn information (this assumes you have a Linked I...

One week until I face a new group of students. Unlike classroom visits in recent years these students are “mine” full time for a semester. E...

A friend asked me to pass this along so I am doing so. I’m hoping to make the event in Boston ( Boston – January 26, 2013 Register now! ) wh...

The last few months have been interesting as I’ve been looking at different career options. One of the things I realized right away was that...

It's half way through January. How’s it going so far? Been interesting for me so far. Hope to have some news about my future plans soon ...

I saw this announcement on the Advanced Placement Computer Science teacher forums and thought it worth sharing. Let’s Raise the Bar for ST...

I’ve been doing some things with Windows Phone development lately and having some fun with it. Being a long time conventional application de...

One of my earliest attempts at programming a computer to play against me was a version of Reversi I attempted some30+ years ago. Reversi is ...

Everyone back at school yet? A lot of universities are not while other have short January terms. Most K-12 schools in the US though are back...

The other day I was bouncing around the Internet an came across of quiz to compute ones “Nerd Score.” It was a fun little quiz and I knew I’...

I keep seeing a lot of order of operations “puzzles” in my Facebook stream. The most recent one was 6/2*(1+2) = ? or A lot of people got i...

Pure opinion post here. I have never been a big fan of the operating system mono culture. In my first job out of college I worked for a comp...

Well a new year starts tomorrow. Hope it is a great one for all of you. This is the last interesting links list for the year. It’s a pretty ...