Computer Science Teacher

My Explorations in Computer Science class is creating web pages this week. This is a fairly short unit and we don’t get very deep at all. Ou...

March is almost over and the snow in my backyard is measured in inches not feet. So spring appears to be coming albeit a bit late. The schoo...

Project ideas come from all sorts of places. Textbooks, other teachers I work with, blogs, random conversations, conferences (do you know ab...

I first blogged about using FizzBuzz in the classroom four years ago when I didn’t have a classroom and students of my own to use it with. (...

One of the things I have been wondering about is how to make a real connection between 3D printing and learning computer science. Sure most ...

Some great links this week. Images to use in class, a video for a TV show (yes about girls computing), and lots more. One of my best collect...

As I looked into why several posts from a while back were getting so many page views lately I realized that search values similar to “interv...

OK I feel better. I was overcome with an urge to write some code. Now I have a program I should write. I want to combine my seating chart pr...

Dear CSTA Community,  Nominations are currently open for the 2015 CSTA Administrator Impact Award! This prestigious award is given by CSTA ...

Last week I was not at SXSWedu. There were not as many tweets about it in my stream as there were from SIGCSE. I still want to go some day t...

Looks like a good chance to earn some money for school projects and introduce students to programming. Open to US public schools only unfort...

It’s been all over social media and online news the last couple of days - BBC to give out one million 'Micro Bit' computers to get k...

One of the things beginners do when learning how to program is to make things more complicated then they need to be. It’s a natural thing be...

Join CSTA K-8 task force for # CSK8 chat on Mar 11 8pm EST. Pedagogy- ‘How to teach’ Computer Science to 5-14yr olds. Not the What or Why....

Microsoft runs all sorts of competitions. Recently I read about the YouthSpark Challenge for Change . Since it is no open to 13 to 17 year ...

Last week was SIGCSE in Kansas City. From all reports it was a great conference. I wasn’t there but I followed as close as I could via Twitt...

I get email. And I get twitter followers. Often these new followers or email senders are promoting some new gadget for teaching. This week i...

Last month I attended a works hop on CodeHunt at Microsoft Research . A talk there by Daniel Perelman on Hint generation in Code Hunt (you c...

Computers are magic. Well to a few people they are. To others they are annoying and useless pieces of hardware. At least until you add softw...

Back in school today. It was nice to have a break but I am looking forward to time with my students today. I got no school work done at all ...