Computer Science Teacher

My son’s school, he’s principal of an elementary school, had a Bingo themed fundraiser yesterday. I can’t help but think about how things ar...

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Kapor Center are conducting a survey of K-12 computer science teachers in the Unite...

We often underestimate the difference that small things can make. When I was in high school all I could afford was a cheap plastic slide rul...

My latest discovery, thanks to Doug Peterson , is Crazy Phrase . Crazy Phrase is something of a variation of Wordle except that in Crazy Phr...

There is a lot of discussion about moving the Advanced Placement CS A exam to Python from Java. The Collegeboard is reluctant to do so. They...

Perhaps my favorite panel of SIGCSE 2022 was debating the question of should the APCS A course switch its language from Java to Python? Duri...

I had a great time at SIGCSE 2022. As an introvert I probably suffered less from not being with people than many but after two years I reall...

Saturday at SIGCSE was a short day but there was still plenty to learn. Shaundra Daily . Her talk, based on her own history, was about how t...

The morning keynote was by Barbara Ericson. She talked about a lot of her early work including some of her online books CSAwesome and her w...

SIGCSE 2022 is my first in-person conference in over 2.5 years. It’s my first SIGCSE in a lot longer than that. It looks to be a great confe...

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...