Computer Science Teacher

Microsoft announced a new web site yesterday that tries to guess the age of people in images. Well guess is probably not the right word. I’m...

Here in New Hampshire we are on school vacation this week. Seems like a lot of places were on vacation last week. Like a lot of teachers I w...

The more I use TouchDevelop the more I learn about it. The more I learn about it the more I want to use it. For example, groups. I’ve known ...

I saw this question on Facebook. My schools going to all iPad next year for the students. Can we do the coding that we need to for AP Comp...

#CSK8 is the Twitter chat community and online discussion that is being run by the CSTA K8 task force. In a short period of time it has bui...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of trust in computing lately. It’s actually something I started thinking about almost 40 years ago...

Daffodils are blooming, golf courses are opening, and buds are appearing on trees and bushes. Looks like we’re going to have spring in New H...

The other day I created some teams (3 to 4 students per team) and asked them to create a program to play tic tac toe – a human player agains...

I love this cartoon from xkcd . Of course some self taught programmers write really nice looking code. And some formally taught programmers...

A couple of days ago I saw an interesting program on the Small Basic blog .  The featured program was one that let a beginner write a turtle...

Students ask interesting questions. One of the more frequent questions they ask is “why would you do that?” Often it comes, not because you ...

Spring may actually be coming. Only of few piles of snow left on my property and I was able to take done the Christmas lights on the tree in...

Saw this item via the CSTA announcements mailing list. Code.org is hoping to expand K-5 computer science education by recruiting qualifi...

Recently a friend of mine sent me a link to a YouTube video about an Augmented Reality Sandbox . It was pretty cool. Cool enough that it loo...

One of the ongoing arguments in computer science is if a university degree or study is necessary in computer science. Basically I think it ...

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. For me it was a three day weekend. One of the benefits of teaching at a Catholic school i...

I ran into this Developer’s problem solving sequence list via twitter yesterday. Google  Coworkers StackOverflow RTFM Think My studen...

My ballot, or rather the coded link to the online voting system, for the 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Election showed up in my email inbox t...

The 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Elections will run from April 2, 2015 to May 4, 2015. In addition to three open positions on the Board, thi...

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...