Computer Science Teacher

I was reading a tweet from a person saying they lost points a program written with pen and paper because the teacher thought the code would ...

One of the things that make me sure that programming will be around for awhile even with better and better artificial intelligences is that ...

Eugene Wallingford had a great post on WHAT WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SUCCEED AS A CS STUDENT? It’s got a lot of good advice and I recommend it ...

I spent some time looking at the Rhode Island Computer Museum web page today. A lot of interesting stuff. Some great information under the ...

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra That doesn't mean people don't try. Recent advances ...

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 ...