Computer Science Teacher

I haven’t been blogging much this week. In part that is being busy with the year ending at school. In part it is because the connection betw...

Memorial Day in the US today. We remember those who died in battle fighting for our country. A somber day in some ways. In other, it makes t...

Several conversations lately have me thinking about combining computer science with other subjects in school. My thinking regularly comes ba...

One big announcement last week was College Board and Code.org announc[ing] an alliance to improve diversity in computer science . The plan i...

Last week I made my travel arrangements for the Annual CSTA Conference . Less than two months away and I’m really looking forward to it. I’l...

With the Computer Science Teachers Association’s annual conference coming up in July there are a few things we thought you should know now...

I came across this image on Facebook recently and it got me thinking. My first old guy “get off my lawn” thought was that when I started co...

Last week was special. Teacher Appreciation week at many schools. International Star Wars Day (May the Fourth). And of course the Advanced P...

Hello World is more or less the ubiquitous first program for most development environments. I hate it. It’s boring. It made a lot of sense i...

While looking for other things (you know how that goes) I found a series of Office Mixes that teach how to program using TouchDevelop. The...

Last week was school vacation week and I had a lot of plans. I threw them all away and decided to spend a couple of days getting over a nast...

Over the last few months I have recorded a few Office Mixes for use in my C# class . I’ve also built up a nice collection of PowerPoint pres...

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...