Computer Science Teacher

For the last several years, I have been playing around with simple cryptography. I have made some of results of this available as a free PDF...

That’s the question Mark Guzdial asked in a recent post on the CS Education Facebook group . He references an article ( Labor Market Outcome...

For some time I have been writing up information about some historic, and simple compared to modern, cryptonymic algorithms. They are collec...

This TEDx talk by Scott Hanselman has been shared a lot on BlueSky, and probably other places, over the last few days. I finally had (made)...

My Facebook feeds are full of teachers discussing the results their students received on the AP CS exams. Lots of the thrill of “victory” an...

An interesting article was posted on Facebook recently. ( https://archive.ph/Jwd7m ) Carnegie Mellon is spending some time over the summer r...

A recent talk by Bjarne Stroustrup at Stanford has sparked some conversation in the Computer Science Educators Facebook group . The talk its...

Not all computer problems are caused by software. Sometimes the hardware is the problem. It’s not always easy to tell where the blame lies. ...

Continuing my software learning stories series, I will talk a bit about commenting code. One customer I supported many years ago was a Jewis...

There is a joke in the software development community that “it’s not a bug. It’s an undocumented feature.” It’s typically used when a bug is...

I am a big fan of using stores to teach. Stories are more memorable that contextless theoretical statements. In my career, over fifty years ...

One of the great problems of teaching computer science is that there is a limited amount of time to teach and an unlimited amount of things ...

The last few years have seen a huge expansion in the number and types of cyber security courses in high schools. Much of this has been drive...

I’ve been rather wrapped up in moving the last few weeks so haven’t been thinking about high school, or K-12, computer science education as ...

I love programming. I took a computer science course as an undergraduate and really fell in love with programming.While I made my living wri...

I finished assembling a new bed frame yesterday. I seems solid with good quality materials and seems well designed. The directions on the ot...

I suppose it was inevitable. In the beginning, CSTA only had a free membership. The organization was originally funded by outside sponsors. ...

H1B visas are back in the news these days. One one hand we have some loud calls for more H1B visas with a claim that US native workers are n...

For the last 20 years or so I have been able to meet some truly great teachers. Some I visited in their schools. Some I met at conferences. ...

Eugene Wallingford let me in on A December Adventure   From the website “The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little b...