Computer Science Teacher

OK so the good news is that I am one of 15 finalists to win 15 Surface Pro's for my favorite school. The winners are chosen by community...

You’re at a great conference and you are hearing all sorts of great ideas. It’s exciting! You hear about tools and techniques that are worki...

It was Spirit Week at my school last week. It’s always interesting what students wear when they have really wide latitude – they wear unifor...

I tried something new last week with my Honors Programming students. I feel like they need more practice problem solving and writing short b...

I saw this announcement on the SIGCSE mailing list. If you’ve thought about running a computer science summer camp this may be the training ...

The Equity Committee of the Computer Science Teachers Association is sponsoring a contest to celebrate the many different kinds of faces th...

During my first few years I worked at Microsoft the focus of my job was higher education computer science. In that role I visited many compu...

Well it’s October already. Things are really starting to roll in my classes. Projects are getting more interesting in my honors programming ...

I suspect that there are a lot of programs and websites available that let teachers enter a class roster and randomly pick out a student nam...

One of the projects I like to assign involves counting the letters in a set of text. In other words, how many times does each unique letter ...

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...