Computer Science Teacher

My programming students are working on their final/semester projects. As is typical some of them are doing extra work on their projects at h...

It’s the end of the school year for me. Next week is our final exam week and my students are working on their semester projects. I use proje...

Brett Becker has been blogging about the ACM CompEd conference now taking place in China. See his blog post at ACM CompEd daily update 1: D...

For most of my teaching career I have been focused on teaching computer science in stand alone computer science classes. And  I really like ...

One of the reasons I held on to my Windows Phone as long as I did is that it was so easy to program apps for it. I had come to depend on one...

Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies recently announced the winners of the Responsible Computer Scien...

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...