Computer Science Teacher

Naming things seems to be a continual problem with programming students. I’ve written about this before (two years ago A Rose By Any Other N...

As with so many things, it started with Doug Peterson. Doug recently posted about something called 100 days of code . This got me started ab...

I understand the appeal of sites like Teachers Pay Teachers . Really I do. Some teachers are awesome at creating resources and the idea of g...

We’re covering Classes and Objects in my Programming Honors course this week. Specifically we are learning how to program classes in C# and ...

Someone posted an interesting question on Facebook. Is using ++i(pre-increment) better than i++(post-increment) ? My reply was to ask for a ...

As I said in yesterday’s blog post,Microsoft has been running their big MSIgnite event this week and making all sorts of announcements. One...

Microsoft has been running their big MSIgnite event this week and making all sorts of announcements.  One of them was a cloud-based develop...

The Computer Science Teachers Association is now 15 years old. I’ve been a member from the start and I have to say that in some ways it fee...

There has been a 12 inch tall Pez dispenser on my desk for a couple of years now. It’s a great visual aid for talking about stacks. Today I ...

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...