Computer Science Teacher

I love xkcd cartoons. I came across this one thing morning that shows the benefits(?) or rounding up. My immediate idea was “what a great p...

Error messages, in theory, are there to help programmers. Of course there are problems with then in practice. With students, the biggest pro...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...