Computer Science Teacher

One of the problems with teaching students how to tell the computer how to do calculations is that they have to learn a new way of expressin...

Earlier this week I introduced a simple Turtle graphics program. The program itself (written in Visual Basic) was created by one of the teac...

I’ll getting my feet under me again lately.  I’m catching up on grading for one thing. And lesson planning and trying to have a life away fr...

It started innocently enough as Twitter conversations are want to do. Eric Williams , a school superintendent in Virginia, posted a tweet ab...

When I was a kid there were a number of spirograph toys available. Some, like the ones available today, had gears and circles with sprocket...

I wasn’t sure if this sort of event would happen again but it has. I saw the announcement yesterday. If you have students looking for a ch...

As you may know a new Advanced Placement Computer Science, usually called AP CS Principles , is being developed by/for the College Board. Th...

Posting this a bit late today. I had a very busy weekend which included some snowboarding. That means I was much too tired and sore yesterda...

I finally decided to get serious about learning TouchDevelop this week. I have sort of toyed with it from time to time and I’ve seen the de...

One of my favorite sayings is that “ real life is an open book test.” I don’t remember where or when I first heard it but it is something I...

I was reading one of those articles about Bill Gates talking about education again. I should stop that. The man is a genius in many areas bu...

The Computer Science Teachers Association is conducting their annual computer science survey right now. CSTA members should have received no...

It’s Women’s History Month and last week was International Women’s Day. Not surprisingly that there was a lot of talk about women in compute...

Years ago I worked for a company that sold computers, software, terminals and many other things. A terminal salesperson worked out of the sa...

Those of you interested in undergraduate computer science education will be interested in the latest draft of the ACM/IEEE-CS CS 2013 curric...

I spent some time debugging student code today. Actually I spend a lot of time debugging student code these days. It is not something I mind...

Last week was school vacation week. Like a lot of teachers I spent the week catching up on things around the house. For me that meant spendi...

Just announced via the CSTA member email system – registration is now open for this summer’s Annual CSTA conference. Some great sessions in ...

Code.org has released their highly anticipated video to encourage more people, especially students, to learn how to code for computers. It’s...

School vacation week for me this week. Trying to get some work done around the house, relax a bit, grade a bunch and of course plan for the ...