Computer Science Teacher

True confession – give me an app that plays with interesting and personal data and I’ll play for a while. The amount of data available to us...

I confess that I would love some augmented reality device that showed me the name of the student I was looking at. I am horrible with names....

What are the top technology issues for the 2020s? Brad Smith, Microsoft President, wrote an interesting post about a month ago called Dawn o...

There is no question that there are a lot of ways to have fun with computer science. Some of them are inexpensive. Some of them cost a lot o...

My Programming Honors students are wrapping up their semester projects today. Actually they should all have been handed in by now but I’ll g...

Every computer science teacher has heard it “My program doesn’t work. What is wrong with it?” Sometimes they will show you the code without ...

Blame Mike Zamansky for this one. In my last post I mentioned that I am planning on retiring from the classroom this spring. Mike wondered h...

Sorry. You may be as tired of the 2020 jokes and puns about the new year as I am. I’ll try to avoid them in the future. This is the time of ...

Both Doug Peterson ( https://dougpete.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/10-years-ago-2/ ) and Mike Zamansky ( https://cestlaz.github.io/post/10-years...

Christmas break for me until 6 January 2020 and with Christmas over I have some time to think. 2019 was an intere3sting year in CS education...

My major task today has been finishing off the semester exam for my Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles students. They’re not hap...

My Programming Honors students are struggling with creating classes in C#. They really wanted me to code up a project live (again) and have ...

My friend Mike Zamansky is a big proponent of the Advent of Code – 25 days of coding problems leading up the Christmas. Since I have been ...

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...