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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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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 bit of code every day in...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | December 1, 2024 at 01:50 PM
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An interesting article was shared on Facebook recently -Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial? Take a look at it. It may make...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 26, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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A presenter at the recent New England CSTA New England Conference mentioned the game Hexapawn. Hexapawn is hardly new. It was first introduced in 1962. I first...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 25, 2024 at 06:28 PM
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I get interesting messages from all sorts of places. Recently, I received this message on LinkedIn. I love the idea of bringing industry professionals in to talk...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 21, 2024 at 02:55 PM
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Got your attention didn’t I? More and more teachers are using online coding environments to teach computer science. I used one myself to teach Advanced Placement...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 19, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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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 is not quite all there...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 18, 2024 at 07:00 AM
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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 people seem to be moving...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 17, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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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 several of them. One of the...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 2, 2024 at 06:02 PM
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The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award is an amazing program for young women THe students I have had who earned these awards have found it very useful...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 19, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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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 down and maybe by writing...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 21, 2024 at 03:32 AM
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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 met before. CSTA is about...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 21, 2024 at 03:48 PM
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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 trip home. Oh well. IGUI4Sher...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 19, 2024 at 03:48 PM
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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 different sessions and he...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 18, 2024 at 08:39 PM
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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 caught my eye. The usualFuture...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 18, 2024 at 06:58 PM
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Day two starts with sessions for ALL attendees. I started proctoring a session called Classroom To Career – CS Curriculum With a Purpose. This was a session presented...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 17, 2024 at 08:19 PM
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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 connect with the other...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 16, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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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 a bit. After the conference...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 14, 2024 at 02:10 PM
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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 scores of conferences...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 21, 2024 at 05:59 PM
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Regular readers of this blog know that I have been doing the New York Times Spelling bee (Computer Science Teacher: Spelling Bee Solver Project). Actually, I do...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 27, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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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 say “26” I would ask...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | February 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM