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Questions Keeping Me Awake Tonight
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Questions Keeping Me Awake Tonight

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...

Post CSTA 2024 Thoughts
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Post CSTA 2024 Thoughts

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...

CSTA Day Four
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CSTA Day Four

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...

CSTA Day Three
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CSTA Day Three

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...

CSTA 2024 Exhibit Hall
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CSTA 2024 Exhibit Hall

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...

CSTA Day Two
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CSTA Day Two

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...

CSTA Day One
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CSTA Day One

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...

CSTA At 20 Looking Back #CSTA2024
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CSTA At 20 Looking Back #CSTA2024

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...

Advice To First Timers at #ISTE24 or #CSTA2024
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Advice To First Timers at #ISTE24 or #CSTA2024

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...

Pangrams Anyone?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Pangrams Anyone?

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...

Alphabet? What alphabet?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Alphabet? What alphabet?

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...

AI Debuggers?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

AI Debuggers?

A meme was posted (by Doug Peterson I believe) asking why if the computer knows there is a semi colon missing that the computer doesn’t add it? It’s a good question...

How Much Hardware Knowledge do CS Students Need
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How Much Hardware Knowledge do CS Students Need

Back to the basics! Get students close to the hardware! Really? Just how much hardware knowledge do students need today? This post was prompted by a post getting...

Looking Forward to Computer Science Education in 2024
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Looking Forward to Computer Science Education in 2024

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future!” --Niels BohrMy track record at looking forward in CS education is a mixed bag. I kept expecting...

Looking Back on Computer Science Education 2023
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Looking Back on Computer Science Education 2023

I’m posting this early this year. My thinking is clear so why wait?For many, 2023 was the year that Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT and other tools, really toss...

Spelling Bee Solver Project
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Spelling Bee Solver Project

My wife loves word puzzles. She is amazing at them. Me? Not so much. On the other hand I love programs and programming projects that involved string manipulation...

Last Call for CSTA Conference Proposals
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Last Call for CSTA Conference Proposals

The CSTA Call for Proposals is coming to an end October 30, 2023 11:59 PM PT.Presentations are what makes the CSTA Conference is what makes CSTA the best conference...

The More You Know The More You Expect
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

The More You Know The More You Expect

One thing that happens when you know who to write computer code is that you know how hard or easy some things are. If you’re even the least OCD some things that...
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