Computer Science Teacher

My good friend and former teaching partner, Tom Indelicato posted about his end of year project for his AP CS A student recently. With his p...

Being back in the classroom has been a learning experience for me. For one thing I have had to learn a bit of Processing (the IDE) as stude...

My algorithms class is studying sorts this week. I felt like we needed a little hands on sorting to get an understanding of how some sorts r...

“What would motivate you to come out of retirement to teach during a pandemic?” That was the question I was asked during an interview for a ...

Are you looking to attend the CSTA 2021 Conference but funding is an issue? There are a great many scholarships available that can help. Vi...

A blog post by Eugene Wallingford  ( TEACHING YOURSELF THE MATERIAL ) reminded me of some things. As he says, “A common complaint from stude...

Someone posted a questions asking which sort of programmer one was from a list of ways to add one to a variable: X++ ++X X+=1 X = X + 1 Actu...

Continuing my look at papers from the SIGCSE 2021conference . The papers are available for free for a limited time. Get them while you can. ...

As the old computer geek joke goes. the three hardest things in programming are naming things and off by one errors. Lately I have been thin...

Continuing my look at papers from the SIGCSE 2021conference . The papers are available for free for a limited time. Get them while you can. ...

I am reading a bunch of papers from the SIGCSE 2021conference. The papers are available for free for a limited time.Get them while you can....

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...