Computer Science Teacher

Some things are hard to stop once you start. I’ve been having some fun with a site called memegenerator.net A couple of my attempts are bel...

I had to do this. I really did. I am so tired of schools claiming that they are teaching 21st century skills (what ever that means) but not ...

The Hour of Code events for CS Ed Week is shaping up to be really big. Are you involved? Here's an update I got from the founder of code...

Starting of this post made me realize that we are exactly a month away from Christmas. I need to get going on shopping for my wife’s present...

I was having a conversation with my friend Ken Royal today. I was sharing with him some of the experiences I was able to have over the last...

Passing this along from the CSTA announcement mailing list. It surprises me that women in the computer field were not more willing to take p...

I had a thought spawned by a comment on a recent blog post and some conversations I have had recently. I wish there was a grant program to g...

I had an interesting problem from a student the other day. He was working his way though an array in a couple of places and one of them was ...

Since this past summer I have been a member of the CSTA Board of Directors (thanks again to all of you who voted for me). It’s been an in...

I made a quick trip to Tucson AZ over the weekend for the CSTA Board meeting. Beautiful part of the country and I wish I had more time to e...

Last week I wrote a program. I wrote about it on this  blog ( Making Magic With Software ) but only about what was visible to the user. This...

This went out to the CSTA Member mailing list tonight. Thought it was worth sharing. Beginning Monday, November 18th, 13-17 year old pre...

It’s Veteran’s Day in the US and most schools are closed. We’re remembering and honoring our nations veterans. I’m remembering my late fath...

I'm passing this along for Code.org who I am helping organize tutorials for an Hour of Code during CS education week. We need help evalu...

Received this update email from Code.org last night. Looks like an Hour of Code for CS Education week is getting real! And of course it is...

My friend and fellow teacher Tom Indelicato and I are teaching a new course this year. We are calling to Explorations in Computer Science an...

If you are a member of the CSTA you should have gotten this update in email. If you didn’t you may want to make sure that CSTA has your ema...

The big news were I live last week was the Red Sox winning the World Series. Nothing at all to do with computing. Even with all the excite...

I confess that I love to debug code. I think I’d rather fix broken code and remove bugs than write original code from scratch. All that set ...

Last week, Code.Org and others announced the Hour of Code to the world. Now backed by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, Mark Zucke...