Computer Science Teacher

Less than two weeks until the annual Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Conference. As far as I am concerned this is the most impo...

I think it is fair to say that I have had an eclectic career in computing. I’ve worked for some of the largest computer companies in the wor...

Recently I was going through my memory box and I came across this button. It was given out by the hundreds at a conference in the 1970s. . ...

The tl;dr is simply this “We don’t teach physics in high school in order to create more professional physicists.” I’ve said that for years...

One of the things I have been doing since retiring is baking bread. I love some fresh bread and I want to avoid artificial ingredients in my...

Trying something new to me. I’ve been really interested in AI recently and when my friend, Rich, approached me about sharing his thoughts ab...

My friend Pat Yongpradit has a post on LinkedIn that got me thinking. It starts with a key statement “Computer programming (coding) is not ...

Artificial Intelligence has been big in the news the last few days. A lot of the talk has been about the Trump administration designating An...

There are a lot of Changes happening at code dot org The Slashdot article linked there lists several of them. While the changes include a n...

I  recently shared at quote on Facebook: Unless our students know that we care, they will not learn from us. I made the comment that...

Back before the personal computer age, computers had lights and toggle switches. One could use the switches to program computers and read an...

I remember the first time I was observed by a principal. Brilliant man with two masters degrees and ABD PhD. He told me that he didn't u...

A friend of mine sent me a link to an opinion piece in the IEEE Spectrum - AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse –> Newer models are mor...

BlueSky is the microblogging site for me these days. That is where I am getting ideas and information about teaching computer science among ...

The other day I ran into an interesting programming exercise on BlueSky. The project description is at 2D Dice Grid Scoring Algorithm - ...

Mark Guzdial posted a link to an interview with Jens Mönig . Jens is the main person behind Snap! which developed out of Scratch (which Jen...

Some of my readers who have been teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science (APCS) will remember the BigInt case study. It was a case stud...

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...