Computer Science Teacher

This is Alfred Thompson's blog about computer science education and related topics.

Thursday, January 27, 2022

What Do Computer Science Teachers Need For Professional Development

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Mike Zamansky had a great post called Trends In Professional Development in CS - it's not all good . We’re still at a very interesting p...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Writing The Wordle Clone

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Kelly Powers posted a Wordle project document on the AP CS A Teachers Facebook page. It’s solid as one would expect from Kelly who is just ...
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Monday, January 17, 2022

Computer Science for the sake of ?

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My grandson in kindergarten has a class in reading. It makes sense as he is just learning how to read. Over time, school spends less time te...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Planning Before Coding

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After all these years one would think I would know better. But it turns out that when coding for fun I don’t always do the planning that I s...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

How Do You Define a Computer Scientist

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The last few days have seem some social media discussion about requirements for a computer scientist. Is Calculus a requirement? Is Assembly...
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Friday, January 07, 2022

Wordle Solving For Fun and Coding

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After my post the other day ( Is Wordle A Project To Assign Students to Program?) I got thinking about solver help for Wordle. I happen to ...
Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Is Wordle A Project To Assign Students to Program?

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Seems like a lot of people are playing Wordle on social media these days. Have you tried it? It’s a word/letter version of old Mastermind g...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2021

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I’ve never felt less prepared to write a look back on CS education than I do today. I’ve been retired from most of the year and the world ha...
Monday, December 06, 2021

Computer Science Education Week 2021

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Well, its CS Ed Week again. Still no cards in the Hallmark store for it. I’ll get back to that in a moment. CS Ed Week has long been a time ...
Friday, December 03, 2021

First - Understand the Problem

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Things are different for me being retired. I don’t get the blogging inspiration the way I used to. Today a post by Mike Zamansky ( Work thro...
Monday, November 08, 2021

Money is Hard in Programming

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Last week I wrote about the making change for a dollar project. It got me thinking about how hard dealing with money in programming really i...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

How Many Ways to Make a Dollar

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I ran into a reminder of an interesting programming problem the other day. One I meant to use with students but never did. Other teachers I ...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Define Learn To Code

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I saw an interesting question today on Twitter: Hey coding enthusiasts! In your opinion, what's the best laptop for students to learn ho...
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Sunday, September 26, 2021

Phun With Phone Numbers

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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...
Friday, September 24, 2021

An AI Tutor for CS Education

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Recently I came across a Microsoft Research project called AI for Programming Education . The project “goal is to build a personalized and a...
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Monday, September 20, 2021

Book Review–System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

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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 ...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Debugging–Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast

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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...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2021

Some Simple Early Programming Projects

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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...
Saturday, September 04, 2021

Are You Assigning Projects or Recipes?

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Chris Lehmann, the amazing principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia,  says “If you assign a project and get back 30 of the s...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

IntelliCode Completion In Visual Studio (Preview) 2022

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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...
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