Computer Science Teacher

June Lin from Play-I sent me this infographic which I found interesting enough to share. Play-i is building educational, programmable robo...

I’m a big fan of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing program. This program recognizes high school young women for their interest ...

School started for me last week. I showed off some sample Kinect apps to most of my classes. For some it was to talk about human computer in...

I ran into an article called How to Pick Your First Programming Language at Help Kids Code that talked about something called TurtleArt .  ...

Most of us involved in teaching computer science know that the issue of teacher certification is a bit of a mess. How much of a mess no one ...

One of the classes I am teaching this year is called Explorations in Computer Science. It’s a step away from the pure applications course (M...

Tammy Andrew and I met a bunch of years ago when we both taught summer school at a famous New England boarding school. We were teaching C++ ...

There seems to be no end to the development of games that meld making a game and playing a game. Kodu is one example I have been using for a...

Summer ends for me tomorrow as my school starts with a professional development day for teachers. First full day with students is Friday. I’...

One really can meet people online though sites like Twitter. That is how I met Cait Sydney Pickens. I look at everyone who follows me on Twi...

I spent last weekend with a room full of university computer science professors. As you might expect discussions covered a wide range of top...

Lou Zulli and I got together recently to talk teaching and computer science education recently. One of the things we talked about was commo...

Where has the summer gone. A week and a day before all teachers have to return to my school. Students the end of next week. It’s been a grea...

I’m saying at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas for the final meeting of the CS 2013 task force .   While this hotel doesn’t have a...

Tammy Pirmann is my mentor on the CSTA Board of Directors and is helping me understand how and what it is all about. More importantly she t...

Today we visit a career/technical school in the seacoast area of New Hampshire. Norm Messa is the teacher we talk to there. Norm is a secon...

I turned 3C years old yesterday.  That’s in Hex of course.  011  1100 in binary. In place of presents post a link to my blog on your blog, F...

Last week I took a little drive. Something around 10 miles in something under 8 minutes I guess. That’s me behind the wheel of a NASCAR race...

Just north of Richmond VA to talk to Rebecca Dovi who  teaches at Patrick Henry High School . Rebecca is also very active in the CSTA and is...

Thanks to a post by Mark Guzdial I found What Makes Code Hard to Understand? This was a report of a study looking into what makes cade har...