Computer Science Teacher

Today is the absolute deadline for my students in Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles to upload their Create Performance Task to ...

My friend Doug Bergman has a new book out called Computer Science K-12: Imagining the possibilities! I reviewed drafts of the book while it...

One of the things I like about using Visual Studio and C# (and Visual Basic for that matter) is the ability to easily create some fun graphi...

The biggest problem in computer science education is training the teachers we need. That seems to be the big thing on my social media in the...

One really can get a lot out of following Twitter hashtags from conferences and other events. Today I saw the following Tweet: This in a nut...

Like many people I found the Zuckerberg Congressional Hearings disturbing on several levels. Yes, there are some serious issues with Faceboo...

I keep seeing suggestions that people don’t need to learn programming because computers will do it better. I am skeptical. In part I am a sk...

Idealism is a good thing. Well, mostly it is. This morning I heard Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg say that Facebook was too idealistic about s...

TouchDevelop is being retired . It’s not the first tool with educational use to be retired by Microsoft. Or from other companies either. Whi...

Those of you with interests in working on cybersecurity with your high school students this Capture the Flag event will find this to be of i...

How can I do a better job of teaching computer science? It’s a question I ask myself just about every day. There have been two big influence...

This message from Brian Aspinall was floating around in my social media the other day and it really resonates with me. I’ve long said that ...

It’s been close to 45 years since I took my first computer science course. I really struggled with the first program. OK someone mostly wrot...

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...