Computer Science Teacher

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

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Hour of Code and Corporate Involvement in CS Education

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An interesting article was shared on Facebook recently - Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial...
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Monday, November 25, 2024

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Hexapawn

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A presenter at the recent New England CSTA New England Conference mentioned the game Hexapawn .  Hexapawn is hardly new. It was first introd...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Interested in Industry Visitors to Your CS Class?

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I get interesting messages from all sorts of places. Recently, I received this message on LinkedIn. I love the idea of bringing industry pro...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Online Programming Environments are Poor Preparation

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Got your attention didn’t I? More and more teachers are using online coding environments to teach computer science. I used one myself to tea...
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Monday, November 18, 2024

Does AI Mean The End Of Teaching Programming

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The tl;dr of it is no. At least not yet. As more and more people use artificial intelligent agents to help write code we’re learning that AI...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Changes in Social Media Where to Find Me

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It appears that a lot of people are leaving X (formerly Twitter) I confess to being one of them. Frankly, X isn’t the same for me. A lot of ...
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Saturday, November 02, 2024

CSTA New England Conference 2024–Exhibit Hall

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Today I was able to attend the 2024 CSTA New England conference. There were 14 exhibits at the conference and I spent some time with severa...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award

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The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award is an amazing program for young women THe students I have had who earned these awards ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Questions Keeping Me Awake Tonight

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It’s about 2:45 AM as I start this post. Why am I writing at this hour? Well, it’s because some things are keeping my mind from shutting dow...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Post CSTA 2024 Thoughts

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The 2024 CSTA conference was the best one ever for me. It was wonderful to catchup with old friends and to talk to many people I had never m...
Friday, July 19, 2024

CSTA Day Four

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Last day of the conference and I woke up to news of a global network outage that was causing delays in thousands of flights. Including my tr...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

CSTA Day Three

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Before I start on my day three report, I want to suggest people look at Mike Zamansky’s Day Two report on his blog. We attended mostly diff...

CSTA 2024 Exhibit Hall

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The exhibit hall was impressive this year. I believe three are something like 80 exhibitors. Below is a snapshot of s few of them that caugh...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

CSTA Day Two

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Day two starts with sessions for ALL attendees. I started proctoring a session called Classroom To Career – CS Curriculum With a Purpose. T...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

CSTA Day One

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Day one for me was the chapter leadership summit. I got talked into the New Hampshire chapter treasurer role. The first thing I did was to c...
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Sunday, July 14, 2024

CSTA At 20 Looking Back #CSTA2024

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CTSA turns twenty and as I write this I am about ready to fly out to Las Vegas for the annual CSTA conference. I’m in the mood to look back ...
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Friday, June 21, 2024

Advice To First Timers at #ISTE24 or #CSTA2024

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Summer conference season is coming up. ISTE starts this weekend (without me) and CSTA (with me) is in July. Over the years I have been to sc...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Pangrams Anyone?

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Regular readers of this blog know that I have been doing the New York Times Spelling bee ( Computer Science Teacher: Spelling Bee Solver Pro...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Alphabet? What alphabet?

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I used to start a talk on internationalization of code with the question “How many letters are in the alphabet?”  Once I had several people ...
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Sunday, February 18, 2024

AI Debuggers?

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A meme was posted (by Doug Peterson I believe) asking why if the computer knows there is a semi colon missing that the computer doesn’t add ...
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