Computer Science Teacher

I saw an interesting question today on Twitter: Hey coding enthusiasts! In your opinion, what's the best laptop for students to learn ho...

Among the programming projects I ran into recently was one to calculate all of the combinations of letters one could make from a phone numbe...

Recently I came across a Microsoft Research project called AI for Programming Education . The project “goal is to build a personalized and a...

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot is what you get when a top philosopher, a top political scientist, and a top ...

Mike Zamansky had an interesting post called  What They Used To Know that got me thinking about the old days. Now Mike is a youngster and d...

If you are not on Twitter you may be missing a lot of good things. For example, the other day Kelly Lougheed ( @kellylougheed ) tweeted ou...

Chris Lehmann, the amazing principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia,  says “If you assign a project and get back 30 of the s...

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 ...