Computer Science Teacher

Where does computer science fit? At the university level I’ve seen it in Business departments/Schools of Business. I’ve seen it in various s...

Great new program from CSTA and code.org . We sometimes forget that administrators can have a huge role in promoting and developing compute...

New semester starts for me today. Brand me (to me) batch of students in two sections of Explorations in Computer Science and one section of ...

Timing. OK maybe not the most funny joke in the world but I’ve been dealing with timing window problems in student programs all week long. A...

Habits die hard. I printed out some end of year surveys for my students to fill out about me (as teacher) and the courses they were finishin...

It’s the calm before the storm for me. Tomorrow starts semester exams at my school and I’ll be busy this week grading semester projects. I’m...

If you are a K-12 computer science educator there is one must attend professional development conference during the year. That is the CSTA A...

I have some 60+ students working on end of semester projects these days. I have one section of Honors Programming and two sections of Explor...

Are you an active member of the Computer Science Teachers Association and looking to get more involved? The CSTA Board is a working board th...

There was an interesting bit of chatting going on over Twitter about the importance of teachers as role models over the weekend. A lot of pe...

Highlight this week? Free and inexpensive books! And some links to interesting news and discussions about women and others in AP CS classes....

The Computer Science Teachers Association just announced the Computer Science Principles Education Summit and applications are now open for...

I get email from people pushing blog post ideas all the time. Several a week generally. Some of them are completely off topic for this blog....

It is amazing how often students write many lives of code when a few lines would work better. There are several reasons, I think, why this h...

I was reading an interview with Lucy Sanders from NCWIT earlier today and this famous cartoon came to mind. Specifically Lucy said: “Some p...

Back to school for me today after a two week Christmas break. I got some rest mentally and physically and I’m ready to go. It’s going to be ...

This may well be of interest to people who like software engineering. A draft of "Software Engineering 2013: Curriculum Guidelines ...

Girls Who Code is a wonderful summer immersion program for girls interested in computing. In its first year, Girls Who Code worked with you...

January First always seems to be a good time to start thinking about the future. I don’t generally make New Year’s Resolutions but this seem...

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...