Computer Science Teacher

It is hard to resist a new technology toy. I’ve been hearing about the Raspberry Pi computer for some time now. A couple of weeks ago I talk...

Last week was school vacation week and I was away with less than ideal Internet. I’m still not sure if that is better or worse than no Inter...

It seems like hardly a week goes by without hearing of some new development tool, web site or online training course for the teaching of com...

Yes I’m a day late with this post. It’s school vacation week in New Hampshire and I’ve had other things on my mind. These things happen. I h...

is a new programming environment for the iPad. It is heavily influenced by Scratch from MIT but has nothing like the features of Scratch. ...

For the past 3-4 months, Google has been working on a program that focuses on diversity and CS pipeline. They will be starting up a program ...

I recently came across Shawn Cornally‘s blog titled ThinkThankThunk and noticed that the subtitle is “ Dealing with the fear of being a bo...

I’ve been trying some different things this year. One experiment was to assign my C# students (this is a second programming course for most ...

The Computer Science Teachers Association is proud to announce the keynotes for the 2013 CSTA Annual Conference (formerly known as the Compu...

Income taxes are due the end of the day today in the US. Thanks to computer software mine are done and in with a minimum of pain. It is amaz...

VIDYA BOOKS : the book, as reimagined by video game makers is a Kickstarter project that is being spearheaded by someone I met while I was ...

Several years ago I wrote a post on my old blog with resources for teaching Binary. Since I no longer have access to that site I can’t updat...

The annual ISTE conference is not known as a hot bed of opportunities for computer science teachers. Things look some what better this year ...

Or perhaps hear, see, do? I was asked about my teaching last week. What would my ideal class period look like. It was as they say a thinker....

According to the daffodils in the front of the house it really is spring. A small pile of snow in my backyard is fighting but I think it is ...

I seldom pay attention to the cars that students drive to school. I’m not that interested. Their technology on the other hand does interest ...

When teaching beginners how to program there are a whole cast of variables to deal with. One of them is finding learning projects or exercis...

I’ve been following CS education events in my old home of New York City from a distance with great interest. As the song says if you can mak...

It’s April First which means both the real and virtual worlds will be filled with jokes and tricks and attempts to fool people. No jokes he...

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...