Computer Science Teacher

My first programming language was FORTRAN IV. As I recall we had Do loops. They worked pretty much the same as what we call For loops in mos...

One of the projects I have used for years is a letter counter program. The idea is to count the occurrences of each individual letter. It’s ...

Got the proctor guide for the PSAT that I have to proctor next week. There is a chart to help proctors determine stop times that are 25, 35,...

Every so often I run into a computer science teacher’s work online and ask myself “how have I never heard of this person before?” This week ...

Applications for the ACM/CSTA 2020 Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing are now open . The deadline is 12 January 2020. The Award The ...

Know a student or teacher or administrator who has achieved something this year to increase access and quality of CS education. I can think ...

This seems to be the year a lot of people are really getting concerned about cheating on computer science programming projects. There has be...

Over the years I have used a number of projects to give students practice using if statements – especially those that involved nesting or ch...

"Tools and Weapons" by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne is a look at some important computing issues through a Microsoft lens. It i...

Neil Plotnick shared some Password Checking Tools on Facebook recently. I’ve used some of these in the past and find them useful and instru...

This is a great program for high school girls interested in technology. I have had several students get awards at the state level and they a...

This looks like a valuable free professional development course for teachers interested in incorporating Scratch into their curriculum. ...

I’m always looking for new projects. I found an interesting example in the book “The Creativity Code” ( Creativity Code review here ). It wa...

The CSTA 2020 Call for Proposals is out and as usual it has me thinking.   Two questions come to mind. One is, what can/should I propose to...

Over the summer Vicki Davis interviewed me for her Ten Minute Podcast. Vicki and I have been friends for a number of years and it is always ...

Tomorrow (Monday) I will meet the new freshmen in my study hall. And I’ll finish getting my room ready for the new school year. First day of...

I’ve been reading a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) this year. Several of them have been pretty scary. It was recommended that I take...

I’ve been programming a long time. I wrote my first computer program in 1972. I think the parents of some of my students were not even born ...

Four years ago I was at a two day informal gathering of teachers. As much as I really enjoy conferences like CSTA, SIGCSE, ISTE and others t...

Ria Galanos has a wonderful blog about her experiences moving from the classroom to a life as a professional software developer. It’s been a...