Computer Science Teacher

HSCTF, an online competition which will educate high school students across the country about computer security, runs from May 18-25, 2014. ...

I’m officially on vacation this week. I’m not sure if there will be an interesting links post next week as I plan to take some time off of t...

For the last year and a half I have been back in the classroom as a full-time teacher. It’s a lot of fun working with the students. It’s bee...

From the CSTA announcement list. Bootstrap is a curricular module for students ages 12-16, which teaches algebraic and geometric concepts...

last week I installed the new Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers on my Nokia phone. There were some pretty cool features there with Cortana ...

I may be getting some spring fever. Next week is our school’s April vacation but mild days and a sunny sky have me wishing I had a bit more ...

A bunch of my students in my honors programming class made the same error yesterday. Remarkably today Bertrand Meyer had a post about the v...

Crazy busy weekend for me. The weather was great and I got a lot done outside. Left me too tired to write this up last night. Sorry for the ...

Using a coding challenge as a promotional event for a movie? This is a new one on me but it looks interesting. What I especially like is tha...

If you are a member of the CSTA you should have received this announcement via email. BUT if you didn’t or you are not a CSTA member (why no...

Sometime in elementary school a teacher taught number bases. I was fascinated. It was interesting. It was fun. It made perfect sense to me. ...

We’re learning about classes and related topics like data hiding and using methods rather than public data in my programming class these day...

Mike Zamansky announced this program on his blog yesterday. ( Announcing SHIP ) It sounds amazing. It’s being run at St Joseph’s College in...

Spring has sprung. Well at least the last of the snow is gone. Seems like late here but it hardly matters as I’ve been busy with school anyw...

I’m teaching a little web development to my freshmen this week. Not a lot – it’s not a web development course – just enough to give them som...

I get questions. By email, twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and more. Seems like they come just about everyway. And I love it. Recently I got a q...

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...