Computer Science Teacher

Last week was busy on a personal level with some great family time. I even got to babysit my 14-month old grandson while everyone else when ...

This week the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced their new Pi Zero .  It only costs $5 in the US. Wow! Here are the specs, via the foundation...

Microsoft Underground Part 1 – Dawn DuPriest is a middle school math and computer science teacher who was invited to Microsoft headquarters ...

Beginning programmers seem to like monolithic code. Give them a task to program and they start right off. writing everything in one huge met...

Aman Yadav from Michigan State University made this great image from the popular meme.  I love it because for me it is so very true. I code ...

I've been looking into this lately. It looks like an interesting first course for a lot of schools. Creative Coding Through Games and...

Earth | Microsoft Imagine Cup https://www.imaginecup.com/Earth via @ MSFTimagine An Imagine Cup coding competition for students between 6 a...

Yesterday’s interesting links was all about links to educators and their blogs and resources. Today is about links from non profits and comp...

Last week was loaded with interesting things flowing from blogs, twitter, Facebook and email. When I first put this post together I realized...

How do you terrify computer science students? Ask them to design their own project to be graded. I asked my programming students today to co...

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 ...