Computer Science Teacher

People are Microsoft always seem to be working on interesting and unexpected (to me anyway) things.  My most recent discovery is TileCode . ...

A professor friend on Facebook posted that a student emailed him to say that they textbook the were using was “crap.” I suggested in jest th...

My wife and I use these fitness trackers, ours are made by Garmin, to keep track of our activity during the day. Each day the devices give u...

Last night I started re-reading Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.  It’s an old book, written in the mid 1960s, so there are some old ...

Well, there is a new tool in town for programming micro devices like the Micro:bit and the AdaFruit Circuit Playground Express and many more...

Fall has come and while students are back in school I am not. I’ve been reflecting a bit about that. I don’t miss getting up at 6 AM and dri...

Since I retired I have been reading more computer science related books. You may have read my book reviews on Humble Pi , Weapons of Math De...

We’ve now finished the first week after Labor Day and at least in North America almost everyone is back to school. That may not mean physica...

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about doing away with computer labs in schools. BYOD and one to one computers have been talked ...

Recently, I asked my Facebook friends for recommendations for non-fiction books that would not get me depressed. Several people recommended ...

The call for participation in CSTA 2021 is now out. You can learn about the submission process and look at some possible topic areas on the...

I cracked a book and found out that Python supports turtle graphics. I love drawing pictures with graphics. I have since I was in university...

The purpose of school work is to get good grades. Well, at least that seems to be a common view on the part of students. Most teachers will ...

Python has been on my radar for years but I haven’t really had the motivation to learn it myself. It’s time though for several reasons. Reas...

I haven't been blogging much lately. I'm adjusting to being retired for the most part but I have been reading and thinking a lot abo...

Weapons of Math Destruction has been out for a couple of years now and it is one of those books that a lot of people reference. I finally g...

The first online CSTA Conference is now about 24 hours behind me. I was fortunate to experience it both as an attendee and a presenter. Afte...

The first thing I did this morning was to prepare for my presentation. I may have made some last minute changes to my presentation deck. The...

Day one of the online CSTA 2020 conference has been today. I’m blogging this as the day goes on and posting it at the end of the day. We sta...

Full disclosure: I haven’t read all of “Computer Science for K-12” edited and compiled by Shuchi Grover yet but a couple of chapters was eno...