Computer Science Teacher

The big deal for me this past weekend was the birth of my first grandchild – a grandson. People are already asking me about what his first t...

For something different, IBM is running its tenth Master the Mainframe Contest for students age 13 and up. From the web site : What you n...

If you didn’t see this in the recent CSTA email blast read below about the ACSL Programming Competition : ACSL has offered a unique progr...

Last week ended with International Talk like a Pirate day . I doubt this would have spread as far as it has without the Internet. Things wer...

Microsoft is running their big Imagine Cup international student competition again this year. While some of the events take a lot of work a...

I updated my list of block programming languages and tools yesterday. Two more bringing the total list to 17. Seventeen? Yep. Also this wee...

A few days ago I was contacted by Christina Cacioppo whose day job is an engineer at a startup but who is also helping to teach Advanced Pla...

The nomination period for the 2015 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing is now open. If you know a high school woman who is intereste...

I used to think that retweeting something that someone who had a lot of followers tweeted was a waste of time. After all they reach many mor...

Overshadowed, at least in the US, by the anniversary of the attack by terrorists on New York and the Pentagon, last week also included Progr...

Most years I have had a rough plan of what I wanted to teach.  I use the term “plan” loosely there. My granularity tended to be a week rathe...

In industry demos I have worked on over the years the people who enter code as part of a demo, usually with someone else explaining what the...

The other day a student wanted to add something to a program using functionality we had not covered in class. His question to me was “Can I ...

Busy busy last week. I feel like I am getting back into the rhythm of school but grading takes up a good bit of time. As it always does. Sti...

Today is the eight day of classes for me. By and large the school year is off to a good start. The students are great. I told my students th...

Nothing like easing into the new school year. Last week was a four day week and so is this week. Today being Labor Day in the US most school...

I saw this announcement on Facebook first but I probably just missed seeing it on the email list. At this stage I have to wonder why? Why mo...

One of the things I am working hard at this year is making things more clear to students. I want them to understand concepts and why they ar...

Well I made it though going back to school. Teachers went back Tuesday, we saw our freshmen students briefly on Wednesday and had a full (ve...

Time flies when you’re having fun. It seems like just yesterday I got home from this summer’s CSTA conference. But it has actually been a wh...