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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding for Fun and Advent of Code
My friend Mike Zamansky is a big proponent of the Advent of Code – 25 days of coding problems leading up the Christmas. Since I have been thinking I want to write...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s In A Name?
Naming things seems to be a continual problem with programming students. I’ve written about this before (two years ago A Rose By Any Other Name Gives An Error )...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding For Fun
As with so many things, it started with Doug Peterson. Doug recently posted about something called 100 days of code. This got me started about the need I feel (some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teachers Helping Teachers For Free
I understand the appeal of sites like Teachers Pay Teachers. Really I do. Some teachers are awesome at creating resources and the idea of getting paid to shareAmazon...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Not Too Easy and Not Too Hard
We’re covering Classes and Objects in my Programming Honors course this week. Specifically we are learning how to program classes in C# and use them in programs...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Define Better
Someone posted an interesting question on Facebook.Is using ++i(pre-increment) better than i++(post-increment) ?My reply was to ask for a definition of “better....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
AI-assisted Programming
As I said in yesterday’s blog post,Microsoft has been running their big MSIgnite event this week and making all sorts of announcements. One interesting announcement...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Studio Online–Possibilities for Education?
Microsoft has been running their big MSIgnite event this week and making all sorts of announcements. One of them was a cloud-based development environment called...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA at 15 #CSTAat15
The Computer Science Teachers Association is now 15 years old. I’ve been a member from the start and I have to say that in some ways it feels like it has always...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Magic 8 Ball and Projects From Real Life
There has been a 12 inch tall Pez dispenser on my desk for a couple of years now. It’s a great visual aid for talking about stacks. Today I got a Magic 8 Ball as...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Loop By Any Other Name
My first programming language was FORTRAN IV. As I recall we had Do loops. They worked pretty much the same as what we call For loops in most languages today. We...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Words in That Text?
One of the projects I have used for years is a letter counter program. The idea is to count the occurrences of each individual letter. It’s a nice project thatAbout...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Time Is 30 Minutes From Now?
Got the proctor guide for the PSAT that I have to proctor next week. There is a chart to help proctors determine stop times that are 25, 35, 50, and 60 minutes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Michael Backus Alaska Middle School Computer Science Teacher
Every so often I run into a computer science teacher’s work online and ask myself “how have I never heard of this person before?” This week I listened to a podcast...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/CSTA 2020 Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing
Applications for the ACM/CSTA 2020 Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing are now open. The deadline is 12 January 2020.The AwardThe ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2019 Champions of Computer Science Awards
Know a student or teacher or administrator who has achieved something this year to increase access and quality of CS education. I can think of a number of people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem Of Cheating on Programming Projects
This seems to be the year a lot of people are really getting concerned about cheating on computer science programming projects. There has been some discussion of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
If Statement Programming Projects
Over the years I have used a number of projects to give students practice using if statements – especially those that involved nesting or checking lots of values...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: "Tools and Weapons"
"Tools and Weapons" by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne is a look at some important computing issues through a Microsoft lens. It is a pretty revealing look as the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson