Computer Science Teacher

People continue to share things that they learned at SIGCSE online. Recently Ria Galanos, from Thomas Jefferson HS, shared Cybersecurity Mod...

I’ve been following, as much as one can, the SIGCSE conference via Twitter this week. One of the comments I read talked about how many place...

Facebook showed me this cartoon this morning. Teaching computer science means you are often programming while someone watches. I confess tha...

The Annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium is taking place in Baltimore this week.  Some of the best minds in computer science education are sha...

Ever since I read those papers on the Rainfall program ( How Hard Is That Programming Problem? )  I’ve been thinking about patterns in probl...

Nissan put together this cute little video that starts with self driving slippers and moves on to self driving pillows and chairs and, well,...

Cultural references (term used loosely) can make projects and exercises more interesting for students. Now that there is an updated version ...

While looking for a quote that was mostly remembered except for who to credit with it I found a couple of fun sites with quote collections i...

One of the important topics in computing these days is diversity. Why? Well there are things like concern about equal opportunity. ( Why Can...

Where are computer science teachers going to come from? That’s the big question. OK it is one of the big questions about Computer Science fo...

Debugging code is hard. Really hard. The more complicated the code the harder it is to debug. Brian Kernighan said it well. But oh do my stu...

For me at least writing test/quiz questions for programming students is hard. Most of what I assign and grade are projects but sometimes I l...

I suspect most if not every Computer Science teacher has had this conversation: Student: Hey, I’m getting an error. Teacher: What error a...

There are a lot of subjects where I found textbooks to be very valuable when I was a student. History for example. One of my degrees is in S...

A recent blog post by Mark Guzdial ( Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines ) has my mind going in a bu...

This time of year I like to think about what might happen in the year ahead. 2018 looks to be an interesting year for computer science educa...

Time to look back on the past year I think. I wrote a post in January about what I was watching ( Computer Science Education Things I’m Watc...

A bunch of years ago I read an op-ed piece in one of the news magazines. I forget the one but the piece itself has stuck with me for years. ...

I’ve toyed with drag and drop or block based programming for a bunch of years now. I even keep a list of block programming platforms . But t...

Sheena is a wonderful innovative teacher who I have know for several years. We also served on the CSTA Board together. She works across grad...