Computer Science Teacher

Apparently  Justine Bateman, yes Justine Bateman the actress who played superficial Mallory Keaton on Family Ties , has started a new role ...

Last night there was some chatter on Twitter about news that The World’s First LEGO School Set to Open in Denmark! It’s an interesting idea...

Memorial Day in the US today. Today we remember the men and women who have fallen in battle serving their county in the military. My Dad did...

Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) seem to be a major topic of conversation in higher education these days. Online courses for high scho...

There seems to be a lot of discussion on the Internet about women in technology. More specifically the troubles they have with. The Girls in...

I found an info graphic from NCWIT on Girls in IT to be pretty interesting. I can’t get it to format right in this blog format but you can ...

I was reading a blog post by a university professor on the subject of adjunct faculty ( Tenure-track’s untouchables ) when I can across the ...

In case you missed the announcement last week the CSTA Election results are announced . Thank you very much to those of you who voted for me...

I have a bias in favor of applications that run locally and take full advantage of the hardware and OS of the base platform. These days it s...

CSTA Election results are announced   Congratulations on reelection to Patrice Gans, Dave Reed and new member Stephanie Hoeppner. Oh and I h...

Many more like these are http://blog.acthompson.net/2015/12/computer-and-math-humor.html I like this one in part because it is subtle. T...

Just about a month left of this school year for me. In between trying to keep things going with grading and teaching I’m starting to think a...

The satirical publication TheOnion released a fart application on GitHub . One can add it to their web page and people who visit it will he...

I had dinner tonight with several computer science professors. The topic of conversation turned to the question of “can everyone learn to pr...

About five weeks left to my school year. I’m behind in grading. I’m behind in lesson planning. This means less time on the Internet for the ...

My programming students are working on some projects these days. I have them working of teams of two to four. As they work I am listening to...

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...