Computer Science Teacher

Time for an end of the year look back on the posts from 2013. I was trying to decide if I should just report on the most read posts or do t...

Not a lot to share this week. Last week was Christmas and I spent a lot less time on the Internet than usual. However if you are looking for...

I was pleased and honored to be a part of the committee that developed this document over a period of several years. If you are interested i...

Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year to all my readers and friends. God Jul og Godt Nyttår Maligayang Pasko at M...

This morning I was reading Robert Scoble’s Age of Context while waiting for my order to be ready at the fish market and came across mention...

Christmas Break! I teach in a Catholic school so we call it that. I’m out of school until January 6th for a nice 16 day break. I have some g...

Most teachers make mistakes in class. I know that I do. Sometimes it is a typo. Or a slip of the tongue. Sometimes it is because we forget s...

By just about any of the usual measures (people involved, media attention, VIP endorsements) this year’s CS Education Week was a huge succes...

Mark Guzdial shared some news about Google’s CS4HS program on Facebook today. Google's program to fund high school teacher professiona...

I tweeted a lot last week. I mean a real lot. Made it hard to sift through for the stuff with more lasting value than just all the great Com...

Doug Peterson tagged me in this blogging meme.  This isn’t normally the sort of thing that I do on this blog but it’s Doug Peterson! Doug i...

Over the summer I posted a series of interviews with computer science educators. (see the index at CS Educator Interviews: The Index ) ) One...

Computer science only counts as a graduation credit (usually in either math or science) in 15 states. In most states a computer science clas...

I’ve been programming for about 40 years now. That’s a long time in Internet time. Honestly in some ways it is more fun now then ever and it...

My first major in college was Sociology. I did finish it along with a second major in Systems Analysis (few CS majors existed back in the d...

Today is Grace Hopper’s birthday. An amazing woman I was fortunate enough to meet while in college and hear speak several times during my c...

Erik Meijer is one of the awesome people I get to meet while I worked at Microsoft. Earlier today he tweeting something that really made me...

There may be quick questions but are there any quick answers? I had the following Tweet recently. @alfredtwo Hi Alfred! Quick question: w...

I have been teaching Visual Basic programming to my freshmen this week. It’s part of a course we call Explorations in Computer Science and i...

TEALS is an interesting program started by a Microsoft employee some years ago. It taps the enthusiasm and expertise of industry professiona...