Computer Science Teacher

Traditionally I write a year end look back on thee previous yest in CS education. (Last year at Looking Back on Computer Science Education ...

Donald E. Knuth famously said "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." The important word there is “premature.” Optimizat...

Trying out ChatGPT seems to be all the rage these days in certain geek circles. I may even be late to the game but I tried a few things over...

For most of my career I hive been hearing that some day computers will write all the code and human programmers will no longer be needed. Or...

Facebook memories remined me that ten years ago I was thinking about writing a program that would ring bells (nautical time) on the hour and...

This year’s CSTA New England regional conference is at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) school of Education. It’s a great venue. Th...

Mike Zamansky is stirring up trouble again. OK not really his intent I’m sure but people can get defensive. I have to say that I agree in pr...

The Micro:Bit is a pretty cool piece of hardware being used in a lot of schools. It’s mostly used in middle school and above but that may be...

Last night I had a dream during which someone suggested that COBOL would make a good first programming language. They tried to promote the d...

I was reading through The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy , as one does, the other night. Specifically, the section on student misconceptions...

Every couple of weeks I bake a couple of loaves of bread. The bread mostly gets used for breakfast sandwiches. Now my bread does not look as...

" A rose by any other name would smell as sweet " William Shakespeare. There are cultures where people have a sort of public name ...

I was thinking about data science lately. The problem is that I don’t know much about data science. I learned about data bases in school and...

It;s seems like artificial intelligence has been “10 years away” for the last 40 years. Back in the mini computer days every computer was cu...

Way back in time, cybersecurity was all about controlling access to the computer in the locked room with the raised floor. Well, you had to ...

Learning about Jacdac devices was my incentive to buy a Micro:Bit 2.0 The Micro:Bit 2.0 has a number of upgrades and new features from the...

Mike Zamansky had another interesting post ( CS - it isn't all that ) that got me thinking. The last three paragraphs started me going. ...

CSTA 2022 was energizing! After three years of not seeing people in person it was awesome to reconnect with people. And to meet new people. ...

It’s a short day today but with plenty to learn. Last night was a great party at the Museum of Science and Technology . I left early (age?) ...

I got an early (for me ) start this morning. I attended a briefing session for session proctors (after missing yesterday’s) so that was good...