Computer Science Teacher

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...