Computer Science Teacher

Why is learning Binary (and various number bases) so hard for students? I don't remember how exactly there were taught to me except that...

Do a search for “robots for teaching programming” using your favorite search engine sometime. You’ll find a lot of news about the latest and...

The Good Idea Fairy struck again today. I have been taking about data checking and data safety with my freshmen lastly. One of the things we...

The two big news event around computer science last week were the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn and the release of th...

After over a year of hard work by a lot of people (I had a small role myself) the K–12 Computer Science Framework is now officially out. F...

Lots of announcements from the Computer Science Teachers Association this past week. We’ll start with them for this week’s links. 2017 CSTA...

The CSTA Annual Conference is my favorite conference for computer science education. I have been privileged to attend most of them over the ...

Yesterday I wrote about Cars and Code about the intersection of transportation and software development. As a teaser I mentioned secure cod...

The other day I heard someone talk about what it might be like if car makers or other manufacturers released products the way most companies...

This post by Valerie Barr ( How We Teach Should Be Independent Of Who We Are Teaching ) really resonates with me. A lot of what education is...

It is Columbus Day in New Hampshire. Or as my family likes to say “Leif Landed First Day.” I’ve been enjoying visiting the amazing fall foli...

There are a lot of people who want to believe that computer science ability is some sort of innate talent. That either you have a special br...

There is a lot of excitement about virtual reality and the prospects of it changing education. Everything from Google Cardboard (on the low...

On behalf of CSTA, ACM and the Infosys Foundation USA, I wanted to let you know that applications are now open for the inaugural Infosys Fou...

It’s autumn in New Hampshire. The leaves are turning all sorts of bright colors and the nights are getting cool. And school is rolling right...

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...