Computer Science Teacher

I confess that I have not watched a single episode of Game of Thrones.  That doesn’t mean I am oblivious to the social impact of the show. M...

Garth Flint has an interesting post about grading programming projects ( It is never easy ) in which he talks about the interesting solution...

It’s been said that the three hardest things in programming are naming things and off by one errors. For some reason, this semester, my stud...

For me, teaching is all about the concepts. Programming languages change. My first programming language was FORTRAN. This was the big langua...

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...