Computer Science Teacher

Take a look at these two equations. I found the first one on Facebook. The second is my first attempt at rewriting it for the computer. What...

Are you a computer science education super hero? You know you are so now you need the t-shirt. Get yours here and also support the computer...

The people I talk to who went to last year;s event rave about it. If you are looking for some good professional development this is well wor...

Make no mistake I think the Cutler-Bell Prize is an outstanding award. I love that it recognizes early computer scientists (high school stud...

I found this thanks to the APCS A mailing list.  CORGIS Datasets Project The C ollection of R eally G reat, I nteresting, S ituated Datas...

My programming courses are a semester long. That’s it. After that someone else gets to teach them more programming and computer science. A s...

Yesterday was selection Sunday and the NCAA announced the teams entering the 2017 basketball championships. So of course I thought about pro...

If you are a K-12 teacher looking for conferences about using technology in education there are many conferences one can go to. If you are a...

Well it looks like Visual Studio 2017 is out . I've installed the community edition on my Surface (not enough disk for everything I'...

Thanks to a Facebook link I found a video interview created by Infosys Foundation USA. on why he “makes.” This lead to one with Adam Savage ...

Last night I had a very weird dream. In it I was trying to recover the programs I wrote in college. I have saved most of them. Well in a man...

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...