Computer Science Teacher

What a year it has been. I was reading my start of the year post from January . The closing was “2019 has some serious potential.” I had no ...

I’ve been doing little programming projects for my own amusement. I thought about doing Advent of Code like the cool kids are (Looking at y...

Recent conversations on Twitter and Facebook have had me thinking about the goals of teaching computer science in high school. There is no s...

If you’re anything like me, you like to assign projects that have some relationship to what is going on in the world. Holidays are one such ...

Earlier this week I was a guest speaker in a computer science class (via Zoom of course). It was fun to be back into a class and interacting...

Why do we program? Well, for some of us it is because we get paid to write code. For some it is part of our learning experiences. For a few ...

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with code lately. One of the things I have been experimenting with is cryptography (See Tiny Book of S...

There is quite the conversation going on in the private Computer Science Educators group on Facebook about teacher preparation for CS educa...

I've been playing with simple cryptography. Mostly stuff that was solid before computers. Just for fun mostly but some of it may make fo...

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...