Computer Science Teacher

Interesting questions appear on Twitter all the time. Sometimes addressed to individuals and sometimes addressed to the Twitterverse as a wh...

I found this image on Facebook last week and it really rang true for me. I experienced both sides of this recently. On one hand I wrote ...

What a week. I teach at a private school and one of the things we do is have open houses for prospective students and parents. Last week we ...

Recently I found the following image on Facebook. I plan to use it with my students this semester as a starting off point for conversation. ...

Actually picking any sort of name is important in programming but we can focus on variable names for a bit. The CS Teaching Tips team tweet...

I found this interesting flowchart for determining where one should eat Thanksgiving. It’s pretty complete which also means it’s complicated...

You know those school weeks with lots of interruptions, strange schedules and little normal routine? Yep, had one last week. I also managed ...

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...