Computer Science Teacher

We celebrated my grandson’s second birthday yesterday. Somehow I couldn’t get into putting this post together afterwards. It felt like work....

I saw this image on Twitter recently. It was captioned: "Spaces or tabs?" "Semicolons." It’s all perfectly legal C or...

I saw the following tweet earlier today.  Still earlier in the day I read a post on Mark Guzdial’s blog about Barriers to Stack Overflow Use...

The big news last week was the launch of the CSforAll Consortium   with over 180 members committed to K12 CS Education. That was not all I p...

Seems like a number of people have been blogging  about computer science for everyone this week. This may well be related to this week’s Com...

There is a difference between computer science and software engineering. There are some big and important differences. There is of course a ...

Yesterday the White House hosted a major summit on Computer Science for All. I wasn’t there myself but was able to watch much of it via live...

Is everyone back at school now? After a couple of short weeks school happens all five weekdays this week. I think I’m ready for a full week....

In a college  I first learned about Stochastic analysis and Monti Carlo Simulations. Whoa! An academic sounding reason to play with random n...

Peter Vogel has been creating a list of tech terms for his ICT students for more than 20 years.  He edits and updates the list just before ...

It’s Labor Day in the US which means this is the last day of a four day weekend for me. It’s nice to have an extra long weekend this early ...

A friend recently sent me a link to this site that looks like it will be very helpful for teachers who are using Scratch from MIT . Check i...

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...