Computer Science Teacher

One of the lessons that stuck with my from some workshops I took some years ago was that more interesting projects involved doing things tha...

Back in my Microsoft days I was actively promoting the Imagine Cup competitions. Realistically, while a couple of high school teams did well...

The other day I added a new entry to my blog post listing drag and drop programming languages . It is based on Scratch and Snap! which many ...

Mitchel Resnick, the man behind Scratch and other cool educational tools, runs the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT’s Media Lab. ...

Do you know students who are  interested in creating an app? The Congressional App Challenge is now open for submissions! Entries are due by...

I spent the last few days in Phoenix Arizona at the fall board meeting of the Computer Science Teachers Association. It was a very busy coup...

Are there some students who can't learn how to code? Mark Guzdial asks that question on his blog and says that “Teachers must always ans...

A former student sent me a links today - NASA seeks programmer fluent in 60-year-old languages to work on Voyager My first thought was that...

Wow! It’s November already. My school’s first quarter is done (I’ll finish updating grades today I hope), Halloween is over and so is Daylig...

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...