Computer Science Teacher

Classes started at my school last week. Whoa! Getting back in the groove is hard. But I have great students and fun classes so it will be ok...

I had an email the other day about the Verizon app challenge . It looks interesting and I may have some students enter this year. The fact t...

Dave Cutler and Gordon Bell have funded an amazing CS competition for American high school students. Last year’s winners had some truly impr...

I meet my new freshmen students today. I hope they are as excited as I am. Should be a good year with lots of interesting things to try with...

Teachers report on Friday this week for back to school. The College Board was making a big thing about Advanced Placement Computer Science P...

My school will be offering AP CS Principles in the 2017/2018 school year so it was suggested that the current computer science teachers atte...

Today is back to school for some students. Also for some teachers. I know some teachers who reported to school last week. Whoa! It’s getting...

In parts of the US, teachers start returning to school this week. I'm not one of them but the time is approaching. Fewer than three week...

There is an idea that high school curriculum is a bit of a zero sum game. In other words that adding something new can only happen if someth...

I’m learning about the new AP CS Principles class the week. There is some good stuff in it. On the other hand the arrays in the pseudo code ...

No one like grading. Well no one I know. But as teachers it is an essential part of what we do. Grading programs can be a real pain to do th...

Blogging just hasn’t been my thing the last two weeks. Too much travel, too much work around the house when I haven’t been traveling, and I ...

Come late August I’ll be teaching a course in Mobile Application Development. It seemed like a great idea when we were discussing new course...

Yes I’m late with this week’s interesting links. In my defense I have been extremely busy the last four or five days. Last Thursday and Frid...

Once a month a small group of teachers is invited to have tea with US Secretary of Education John King . June was the month for computer sci...

Summer is a great time to think. I’ve been fortunate enough to have several opportunities to talk to other computer science teachers this su...

I came under some criticism for a comment I made on Facebook earlier today. I asked “I wonder how many high schools teach Calc AB to student...

Happy US independence day for my friends in the US. Also happy birthday to Queen Sonja of Norway. My family in Norway jokes that the America...

Earlier this week I received email about several grants that SIGCSE has awarded. I think they look pretty interesting. I’m especially excite...

Day two started with a keynote by Stephen Reid about game playing in education. It was very interesting and he showed samples of a lot of g...