Computer Science Teacher

Recently I requested a free (for educators) starter kit from Phidgets . Phidgets are small controllers and sensors that are easy to use and ...

All of a sudden the subject of the first programming language is getting discussed everywhere. OK, maybe not every where but it is in Twitte...

Beginner programmers often, dare I say usually, struggle with arrays. Sometimes it is hard for experienced programmers like myself to unders...

As a member of the CSTA Conference Committee, I attended the first of two presenter training sessions today. Wow! CSTA 2021 will be good. No...

I’ve never had a lot of use for the ternary operator. Until recently, I think I under appreciated it. I Don’t recall ever using it in profes...

Well, this is not actually a trip report but its something like it. I spend the last couple of months teaching at Phillips Exeter Academy as...

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...