Computer Science Teacher

I’ve been writing more code then usual lately. Mostly just for the fun of it. That means less time on the Internet collecting good links. Bu...

A post I wrote some time ago bemoaning the lack of new operating systems has been the most frequently viewed post of all time on this blog....

I spend a lot of time thinking about projects for my students. For programming, for applications (Office apps etc.) and just in general. I w...

Supposedly spring arrived in New England last week. The daffodils working their way up in my front yard suggest that may actually have happe...

Recently Microsoft ran their big annual Microsoft Global Forum which brings together top teachers with technology from all over the world. ...

As you may have already heard (especially if you are a regular reader of this blog), the Computer Science Teachers Association is in full sw...

The other day I was working on a code project and ran into a frustrating bug. I looked at it for at least an hour and got nowhere with it. I...

Several years ago I was visiting a college and the professor I was meeting with told me he assigned a slot machine project to his students. ...

Grit seems to be the latest educational buzz word these days. According to psychologist Angela Duckworth “grit is a better indicator of GPA...

Apparently the groundhog was right about a long winter. At least for us in New Hampshire. Still plenty of snow on the ground here. Extra inc...

The elections and nominations committee has announced the candidates for the Computer Science Teachers Association board of directors. You c...

Sometimes one just doesn’t know what blog posts are going to take off. Last month I wrote a post called Sorting Isn’t Always Simple . It’s b...

I spent some time last week trying to keep up with what was happening in Austin Texas at SxSWedu and Atlanta Georgia with SIGCSE by watchi...

Oh boy are things up in the air in the HS CS curriculum these days. While we have some great advice from the CSTA ( CSTA K-12 Computer Scien...

One never knows where something is going to go on Twitter. I recently tweeted a link to a post by Garth Flint titled Teaching programming is...

Very nice Famous Women in Computing Infographic from the Anita Borg Institute .

This week has been hectic for a lot of reasons. Getting my grades and comments in for progress reports has just been part of it. I haven’t h...

Last week was school vacation week and I spent a lot more time than usual off line. I even got in a day of snowboarding. I don’t have as man...

Me to a student the other day“Several other people made the same mistake. That is why I was able to spot it so quickly.” Invariably that sta...

Gamification of learning is quite the big deal these days. While there is not unanimous agreement and unambiguous evidence that it works in ...