Computer Science Teacher

I’ve been writing some code for my own amusement the last few days. I have happily using Microsoft CoPilot to help me out. One really has to...

Seems like several years now I have joked or perhaps half joked that there are no Computer Science Education Week greeting cards. Have any o...

Mark Guzdial's blog is number one on my “must read” blog list. If you are a computer science educator it should be on your list as well...

According to Code.ORG The Hour of Code is now the Hour of AI The Hour of AI makes teaching AI literacy easy, engaging, and fun. Em...

Thanks to Facebook memories and a link that was almost a dead link I reread a post on my old blog – How To Read Code . It got me thinking ab...

I’m always looking for interesting projects. The other day I ran into the story of the Monty Hall Problem . The brief version of this logic/...

Pay Yongpradit recently posted ( LinkedIn post ) about asking a number of computer science education leaders and researchers “about their bi...

My latest coding involves an attempt to memorize nautical signal flags. I’ve played with this idea in the past but never had the time to rea...

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...