Computer Science Teacher

No, really you are. If someone hasn’t told you this yet it’s probably because too few people know what programming language you are teaching...

Today is a snow day here in New Hampshire. My third one this week. So I have taken care of most of the errands I use snow days to take care ...

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) revised K-12 Computer Science (CS) Standards is now available for review. This is not to be...

I spent most of last week grading semester projects written by my students. Reading through the code of beginners is really interesting. It’...

SxSWedu is one big conference I have never been to. Seeing how it is tied to the big South By SouthWest Interactive and Music conferences i...

For various reasons my thoughts lately have been on my college experience. Now I graduated in 1975 which was a few years ago. A lot has chan...

Do high school or younger computer science students really need to understand number-base conversion and binary, decimal, and hexadecimal nu...

What is going to be big in 2017? It’s always hard to tell but there are several things I think I need to keep an eye on this year. (Note: La...

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...