Computer Science Teacher

Students sure are good at distracting teachers from the main topic. Especially if they have a teacher who likes to talk. I confess that I am...

Most programming projects for beginners are small ones. They are focused on a specific concept that is under discussion. They are often forc...

The Microsoft Research podcast has some very interesting interviews. One of them is How Programming Languages Quietly Run the World with Dr....

Two controversial assertions in that title. That APCS is necessary and that it is evil.  I thought about leaving this post at that and seein...

ACM and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) announced the winners of the 2017-2018 Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing ...

Some cool projects which you can read about here . For more information about ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing, visit htt...

Throughout my career I have increased my knowledge by working on projects. As a teacher who teaches mostly beginners I don’t see a lot of co...

It seems like a great idea – have the computer automatically grade student projects. Save all that boring work. Looking at all those project...

The Computer Science Teachers Association’s 2018 Annual Conference will take place July 7-10, 2018 in Omaha, NE. Don’t miss out on this worl...

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...