Computer Science Teacher

One of the best things about teaching is students asking questions that never occurred to you. I learned several new things today. Students ...

I’m writing this post from a hotel in Chicago. I’m here for some meetings which I’ll be sure to blog about later. I left my power cord home ...

Students ask me why their program doesn’t work all the time. Sometimes they ask me as soon as a problem pops up. Usually they work on it the...

Facebook entered the efforts to help more people learn about programming yesterday with a new website. “ TechPrep -- a website to help peop...

I found this image recently and shared it on Facebook. Reactions from my friends was interesting. Most agreed with my saying that I didn’t...

I played around with social media statistics this weekend. Apparently some 7% of both my Twitter followers and readers of this blog are from...

Over 40 years ago I first graded programming projects. As an undergraduate lab assistant I reviewed student projects based on metrics from t...

Yesterday, like thousands of other teachers, I was proctoring the PSAT exam. Few things are less exciting that watching a room full of stude...

A couple of years ago two of my students were discussing my influence on motivating students into computer science. One was giving me much t...

The smart thing is to practice any code writing one is going to demonstrate in front of an audience. When I was was working in industry and ...

I’m not in school today. Columbus Day holiday here in the US. A bigger deal is that my grandson stayed over last night. I love being a grand...

Last week I was a bit critical of a study about traits that make for good computer science students or programmers ( How NOT To Tell If Some...

Garth Flint is one of my favorite bloggers. Garth teaches computer science in a smallish private Catholic school in Montana. This week he w...

Recently “ Code School , a Pluralsight company and online learn-to-code destination” released the results of a study of sorts they did to t...

The TEALS program (www.tealsk12.org) is looking for regional managers to help them expand their program of placing industry professionals in...

Doug Peterson occasionally writes “replies” to spam comments that are left on his blog. He does it so well that although I love the idea I ...

School is really rolling along for me. Last week we had our first progress reports due. This was followed up by a number of kids looking to ...

News about the BBC Micro:Bit is probably more useful to my United Kingdom readers than those of us in the rest of the world but I think it ...

One of the things I don’t have near enough time to talk about in a one semester first programming course is performance. Arguably that is mu...

I’ve had my students working on a little exercise this week. It’s simple and I know that a lot of teachers use similar projects. The idea is...