Computer Science Teacher

Are you an Advanced Placement Computer Science teacher? Are you concerned about increasing the number of women in computing?  Are you willin...

One of my goals this year is to improve my demonstration code. As part of that I want some demos that build on top of one another. A lot of ...

About five years ago I interviewed Doug Bergman for my occasional series of interviews with computer science teachers.  Doug is constantly ...

Not long ago someone asked on Facebook for great HS CS programs to visit. Three schools came up quickly and repeatedly. Two are large magnet...

The more I talk to people about what should be included in high school computer science the more I thing of the Indian story of the blind me...

There was a lot of good CS education activity on Twitter this past weekend. I know I missed a lot of it but some things did stand out for me...

I drove behind a Google Maps Street view car for a couple of miles today. Things I wondered about: Will my car show up on Street View? What ...

Last week Bill Gates visited the Academy for Software Engineering , a computer science focused high school in New York City. and wrote about...

Recipients of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing receive engraved awards, scholarship and internship opportunities, entry to a pee...

Sometime when I was around age 11 or 12 I learned about different number systems. I was fascinated with the concepts involved. I literally s...

Blocks or text? Which should I use with beginners? On one hand, I read research backed articles like Mark Guzdial’s High school students lea...

Most programming textbooks just are not what I am looking for. They are too long. They are too dull. And they are written for teachers to us...

Things have been moving right along in New Hampshire. First we developed CS teacher certification (a joint effort with the department of edu...

One of the things I tell students is that computer science is relevant to a lot of careers that they may not think of at first. An announcem...

Two weeks from today I return to school for teacher orientation. Students come in the next week. Things are getting real. While I have been ...

Do you know a student working on an amazing computer science project? Maybe they need some recognition to take them to the next level. The C...

Too often people think of ethics, accessibility, and security as condiments; something to add at the end rather than ingredients essential f...

The ACM has released the latest update for the ACM Code of Ethics . It’s an interesting and important document. I wonder how many computing ...

Narrator : Alfred Thompson, you’ve just attended an amazing CSTA Conference. Now what? Alfred : I’m going to Disney World! And so I did. I j...

One of the big announcements at the recent Computer Science Teachers Association conference was that Microsoft is donating two million doll...