Computer Science Teacher

Today is the last day of ISTE and I’m not there. I am following a lot of conversation from there on Twitter though. One thing that is coming...

Summer is a time of reflection and learning for me. I really want to be a better teacher and summer give me a chance to read more and to thi...

Of the several courses I teach, my favorite course is call Honors Programming. Its a one semester course that is the first real programing c...

One of my students won for her district last year. She found it a very valuable experience. I highly support this challenge. Share it with ...

Mark Guzdial has an interesting post called Reflections of a CS Professor and an End-User Programmer in which he compares end-user programm...

It is teacher wrap up day at Bishop Guertin. The warning bell for homeroom just rang but of course the students were done on Friday so there...

My first published book, Microsoft Visual Basic FUNdamentals, came out 18 years ago. It was for Visual Basic version 6 and what I did was to...

The t-shirt image here showed up on my Facebook feed the other day.  My first thought was “Yes, computer teachers are the coolest.” Of cours...

During a conversation with my dean, he said it takes about three years to really get teaching an Advanced Placement course down pat. I don...

End of the semester project time for me. All of my programming students have been finishing up[ their self-selected projects and I have been...

This year i taught advanced Placement Computer Science Principles with a mix of high school juniors and seniors. Because of the schedule I h...

My beginning students have big problems with writing decision statements. Boolean expressions are a real problem. Most of the time it is bec...

When I was in high school (I graduated in 1971 so this was a while ago) there was a computer in the building. If you got an A in Calculous a...

We talk a lot about requiring computer science as a high school graduation requirement. It is an issue that is not without controversy. ( Sh...

This time of year I think a lot about how I teach. There is something about the end of the year and evaluating how much my students have (or...

History is important. We’ve all heard, if not quoted, the adage that “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Mark Guz...

My school has a couple of weeks left but it’s getting close. My Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles students have taken their AP ...

I’m tempted to just leave this post blank and see what sort of comments it gets. But I am incapable of that. Sorry. Assuming we are preparin...

Mark Guzdial linked to this post on his blog - Feeling disadvantaged in CS courses at University of XXX – Original post at Minimal exposur...

I may be in a minority in this but in some ways the most fun part of my job is debugging student code. Students are very clever at wring cod...