Computer Science Teacher

Students are really good at creating strange hard to solve bugs in their code. I am convinced that the code of a raw beginner can easily be ...

I haven’t done one of these for a while. I still Tweet or retweet a lot at @AlfredTwo but I needed a break. I’m not sure I will do this eve...

Last week my school was told we had earned the College Board’s Female Diversity award for both Advanced Placement Computer Science A and Adv...

There are a number of sets of standards with most based on the CSTA standards ( https://www.csteachers.org/general/custom.asp?page=standards...

Remember in the first Ghostbusters movie where the ghostbusters are told not to cross the stream of their ghost busting guns? And then at th...

My students are working on the palindrome project. You probably know it – enter a string and report if it is a palindrome or not. In my case...

In March of 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband who would be the second US president “I long to hear that you have declared an independ...

We all get asked this question – What are you reading? Often this is the context of an interview and the person asking is really asking “how...

Wow! Computer Science Teachers Association members should all have gotten an email about this year’s election for the CSTA Board. It is a re...

I admit that I am a sucker for “the best [what ever] in each state” lists. I want to see how many I have visited and what is “the best” in m...

I'm not a Minecraft person. I've had the demos. I know that some kids really get into it but … Well, some teachers love it as much a...

I recieved this from Pat Yongpradit of Code.org and thought I should share it. The US Department of Education has announced the EIR grant c...

Last week, I was reading some old code. I wrote it in 1975. It was in FORTRAN IV and it was on punch cards. Really bad code. One character, ...

I think Garth Flint (blog at Garth's CS Education Blog ) first introduced me to the idea of the good idea fairy. The good idea fairy str...

We have a supply and demand problem in computer science education. Demand has never been higher and it is growing.  The need is real. Take a...

Variables in computer science are complicated. No, really they are. I didn’t consciously  realize how complicated until I read “ What is a v...

I’ve been thinking a lot about computer science standards and frameworks the last couple of days. It’s all Mark Guzdial’s fault because he p...

Mark Guzdial posted a link to an article about him ( The social justice case for computing: transforming tools for some into a language for ...

I try not to throw code away. I have punch cards in my attic that are over 40 years old. I also have a bunch of code from my university days...

I’ve been thinking about this post for the last several days. My usual practice has been to start the year with a list of things I want to w...