Computer Science Teacher

Those of us involved in Computer Science education were pretty excited when President Obama mentioned computer science education in his Stat...

Looking to learn from CS teachers. I hate reinventing the wheel.  One of the things I would like to learn more about is teaching the use of ...

There are lots of cool gadgets out there these days. A lot of them are being promoted as ways to get students excited about developing softw...

The standing joke, which is not so funny really, is that creating a sub plan for missing a day of school is more work than working a day at ...

THe school year is pretty much half over for me. Last week we wrapped up the first semester exams. I give semester projects, which inspired ...

I’m grading end of semester projects this week. Generally speaking, they are full of the concepts and tools that we have worked with in the ...

Last week was a good week as computer science education was called out by the President of the United States. And a student of mine, me and ...

This week’s monstrous PowerBall lottery jackpot (1.6 million US dollars) had a lot of people talking. I bought a ticket but didn’t win. On t...

It’s that time of semester again - Final project time for my semester courses. Students are working on their big projects and running into d...

I didn’t win PowerBall this weekend so it is back to school for me. BTW am I the only one who has been thinking about what sort of database ...

A lot of people are looking for help getting professional development. I saw this on the CSTA mailing list and thought I should post it for ...

I’m introducing loops to my Freshmen this week. I’m trying a couple of new things. I thought I might put them out there in hopes of getting ...

This week at the big Consumer Electronics Show LEGO Education announced a new product WeDo 2.0 . In the press release they called it a “New ...

OK this is the first I have heard of this but it is a great idea. Comments are a huge thing for bloggers. I get a few comments now and agai...

Happy New Year! Happy 11111100000! Today is forst day back at school. I didn’t get to everything I wanted to do over the break but I did sta...

It seems like there is a regular stream of articles, often on blogs, talking about blogging going away. Or changing for the worse. Or other ...

“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” I was thinking about writing a post with predictions but realized that I...

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...