Computer Science Teacher

There is a preview out for Visual Studio 2022 available and since I a) love to try new things and b) am not limited to by what is on the stu...

I'm cleaning up and finding interesting things. Well, actually, interesting books. One find is called "A Collection of Programming ...

Recursion was never a big part of my toolbox but I am starting to appreciate it more recently. Regular readers know that I have been writing...

Trying learn too many things can be a risky proposition. But sometimes it feels like the way to go. Regular readers of this blog know that I...

Bacon's cipher is a fairly well-known and simple cipher. Its considered a form of steganography . Unlike most steganography, the code i...

There has been a conversation on Twitter about the unary increment operator (++) and related (+=, –, etc.). I tend to gloss over these when ...

The CSTA 2021 Virtual Conference is in the books. I really did enjoy it and I learned a lot. Virtual conferences are different from in-perso...

No morning help desk duty for me today so I watches the whole “Morning Java” session. For those of you not at CSTA, Moring Java was an intro...

Today started, for me, with help desk duty. While I was there no one needed any help which I suppose says good thi8ngs about the HopIn platf...

Today was the first day of the Computer Science Teachers Association conference. All online of course. It was a pretty cool day. I got mysel...

They say that the second programming language is the hardest to learn. That’s mostly because one learns how to program using their first lan...

Sample code is a wonderful way to teach and learn coding.  The problem with a lot of sample code is that it is just too complicated and to f...

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...