Computer Science Teacher

I think most teachers do some introspection at the end of the school year about how things went for them. They think about what worked and w...

There are still a couple of weeks of school for me and my students. Well the seniors are done with their finals on Friday but underclassmen ...

Mark Guzdial linked to a post about Technology’s Man Problem yesterday and highlighted one piece of it. It really got me thinking. a comm...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of how we teach computer science or perhaps just programming to younger students. Some of it brought...

The only blog post I wrote was the Monday morning links post. I feel like I’m slacking off but I sure was overloaded with other things to do...

Looking at my Facebook timeline it looks like schools in the southern US are starting to wrap up for the year already. My school has about a...

Some years ago my wife bought me a binary clock. I have it sitting on my desk at school facing the students. It drives the students crazy. ...

I stumbled upon a really good talk by Simon Peyton Jones from Microsoft Research about teaching computer science early on today. In it he t...

Earlier this evening Chris Stephenson, the founding executive director of the Computer Science Teachers Association, announced her resignati...

Well back to school for me today. I didn’t plan on much Internet time last week (school break) but it turned out that the weather was horrib...

Yesterday, May 1, 2014 was the fiftieth anniversary of the BASIC programming language. Articles about this are abundant on the Internet and ...

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...