Computer Science Teacher

Fair warning, this is a post in two parts. First a project idea and second musings on the tools I used to create it. I really do like to w...

It seems like just about everything has a user interface these days. It is sometimes hard for me to question them. What sort of decisions go...

Mike Zamansky is Looking at the start of school for 2025 on his blog C’est la Z He’s thinking about phone bans and AI in schools. I have be...

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. ...