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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Last week I wrote about the making change for a dollar project. It got me thinking about how hard dealing with money in programming really is. The problem with...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 8, 2021 at 07:26 AM
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I ran into a reminder of an interesting programming problem the other day. One I meant to use with students but never did. Other teachers I know do use it. Simply...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 4, 2021 at 03:53 PM
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I saw an interesting question today on Twitter:
Hey coding enthusiasts! In your opinion, what's the best laptop for students to learn how to code on? #edchat #edtechchat...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 30, 2021 at 11:49 PM
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Among the programming projects I ran into recently was one to calculate all of the combinations of letters one could make from a phone number. Companies do this...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 26, 2021 at 03:44 PM
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Recently I came across a Microsoft Research project called AI for Programming Education. The project “goal is to build a personalized and autonomous intelligent...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 24, 2021 at 05:31 PM
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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot is what you get when a top philosopher, a top political scientist, and a top computer scientist get...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 20, 2021 at 07:14 AM
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Mike Zamansky had an interesting post called What They Used To Know that got me thinking about the old days. Now Mike is a youngster and didn’t really start in...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 17, 2021 at 07:11 PM
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If you are not on Twitter you may be missing a lot of good things. For example, the other day Kelly Lougheed (@kellylougheed ) tweeted out a bunch of simple labs...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 7, 2021 at 07:30 AM
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Chris Lehmann, the amazing principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, says “If you assign a project and get back 30 of the same thing, that’s not...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 4, 2021 at 01:22 PM
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There is a preview out for Visual Studio 2022 available and since I a) love to try new things and b) am not limited to by what is on the student computers I have...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 26, 2021 at 03:49 PM
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I'm cleaning up and finding interesting things. Well, actually, interesting books. One find is called "A Collection of Programming Problems and Techniques." Copyright...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 23, 2021 at 04:34 PM
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Recursion was never a big part of my toolbox but I am starting to appreciate it more recently. Regular readers know that I have been writing about and writing code...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 20, 2021 at 06:47 PM
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Trying learn too many things can be a risky proposition. But sometimes it feels like the way to go. Regular readers of this blog know that I have been trying to...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | August 2, 2021 at 02:54 PM
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Bacon's cipher is a fairly well-known and simple cipher. Its considered a form of steganography. Unlike most steganography, the code is hidden in the text and not...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 29, 2021 at 12:19 PM
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There has been a conversation on Twitter about the unary increment operator (++) and related (+=, –, etc.). I tend to gloss over these when teaching beginners....Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 19, 2021 at 06:53 PM
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The CSTA 2021 Virtual Conference is in the books. I really did enjoy it and I learned a lot. Virtual conferences are different from in-person conferences and INotes...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 16, 2021 at 05:18 PM
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No morning help desk duty for me today so I watches the whole “Morning Java” session. For those of you not at CSTA, Moring Java was an introduction to the day with...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 16, 2021 at 01:19 PM
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Today started, for me, with help desk duty. While I was there no one needed any help which I suppose says good thi8ngs about the HopIn platform CSTA is using. The...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 15, 2021 at 05:34 PM
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Today was the first day of the Computer Science Teachers Association conference. All online of course. It was a pretty cool day. I got myself set up with a twohttps...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 14, 2021 at 07:36 PM
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They say that the second programming language is the hardest to learn. That’s mostly because one learns how to program using their first language but each language...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 13, 2021 at 07:45 AM