Computer Science Teacher

The other day I found an older blog post by Rob Underwood called Code Syntax Compared . In it he wrote a very simple program in 5 different ...

I decided it was time to take a look at my most read posts from the last year. This is an interesting exercise for several reasons. One is t...

I like this one in part because it is subtle. There are two basic standards for opening the curly brace in C-type languages.  Not everyone...

I just realized that this will be the last interesting links post of 2015. What a year it has been. Last week I spent less time online or th...

It’s Christmas at my home. If you are also celebrating I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon Bo...

Yea! I’m on Christmas Break. Most of the public schools in my area start their winter break after Wednesday. I’ll be spending some of my fre...

There is still time to encourage your students to apply for the 2015-16 ACM/CSTA Cutler Bell prize!  This $10,000 award will go to four grad...

Making Waves with CSTA! 2016 CSTA Annual Conference   |   July 10 - 12, 2016 Town and Country Resort & Convention Center San...

It's time for elections or at least nominations for positions on the Computer Science Teachers Association board of directors. I'm i...

I’m late this week. Windows Live Writer’s connection to Blogger (where this blog is hosted) is broken. Now that it is being open sources as ...

Students this morning were asking people for duct tape. I don’t know what problem they were trying to solve but eventually it was solved wit...

This week I have been reading an old-fashioned paper book. (The Martian – outstanding read) For the last two years most of my reading has be...

Scratch Jr and PBS are both well known entities in education for younger children. It’s probably not surprising that the two have partnered ...

The calendar years is coming to a close. I have 10 days of school (including today) until my school’s Christmas break. I’m looking forward t...

I first wrote about Project K several years ago when it first came out. That was in my old Microsoft blog which I no longer have access to c...

New things for teaching seem to appear every week. Sometimes they are around for a while before I find out about them. Apparently the world ...

I love the creativity of students. We worked on a whack a mole game in class today. The purpose was to create a user control but of course s...

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 ...