Computer Science Teacher

There was a time when I would have written a blog post every night of ISTE. Apparently I’m getting older or something and that is not a prio...

I found an interesting article today New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming The BASIC programming lan...

Summer time is time for me to do a lot of thinking about my teaching practice. I've been doing a lot of reading and a couple of quotes h...

What to teach and how t teach are different questions. The first is all about content knowledge and the second is about pedagogy. For the mo...

At it’s best, social computing is a conversation that moves in a positive direction. The more people who participate the better the conversa...

A recent Facebook post suggested changing the language for Advanced Placement Computer Science A (what some of us annoy others by calling AP...

Garth Flint had another good post today ( Last Day of School And Done with Java ) He lists some interesting projects he assigned and writes ...

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...