Computer Science Teacher

I started 2016 with a post called Computer Science Education Things to Watch in 2016 . It's time to look back and write about what I thi...

One of my major goals this year has been to get more activity in class to help students understand concepts. Jumping right into code is awfu...

I love string manipulation projects. Maybe because I have always been more of a word person than a math person. Who knows why. I see them ev...

Does your school believe in Computer Science for All? Take the @CSforAll #CSEdWeekpledge to show your support and be included in announcem...

OK I admit it – sorting fascinates me. No, really it does. OF course it is also an important topic for computer science classes. CS Unplugge...

Programming is not the same thing as computer science. But of course they are related. For example, knowing how to use the following arrays ...

I ran into a couple of images with messages about programming today. One I think is useful. The other I think is the opposite of useful. The...

I’m telling my students  about this. Looks like it will be educational even if money is not enough of an incentive. Online Contest The ...

The Bring IT, Together conference is taking place this week in Niagara Falls, Canada. I’m not there but I have been seeing some social medi...

I have this set of mixed feelings about student programming contests. On one level they just feel very artificial and inauthentic. You have ...

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...