Computer Science Teacher

Mark Guzdial posted several articles about evaluating the teaching records of undergraduate faculty. (Links below) They really got me thinki...

Last week a teacher posted an interesting problem. They were looking for an explanation of why to code produced the answer that it did. The ...

Programming is fun for me. It always has been.I’ve always written code to scratch a personal itch. That is to say that I like to write progr...

Comments sometimes seem to be a hot button for software developers. Opinions range from the manager I had who actually did want a comment on...

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I’ll start with a confession. Recursion is one of those concepts that I struggled to understand in the beginning. Was it me or was it how it...

What a strange year it has been. The pandemic and more took a lot of the steam out of what I had hoped to dig deeply into in 2020. Surviving...

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 ...