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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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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Just registered for the 2021 CSTA Annual Conference Early discounted registration for CSTA+ members is now open https://web.cvent.com/event/354be991-0b98-48e0-b4d3...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 11, 2021 at 09:59 AM
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I’ll start with a confession. Recursion is one of those concepts that I struggled to understand in the beginning. Was it me or was it how it was taught? An open...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 2, 2021 at 12:03 PM
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What a strange year it has been. The pandemic and more took a lot of the steam out of what I had hoped to dig deeply into in 2020. Surviving is success in these...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 1, 2021 at 06:07 PM
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What a year it has been. I was reading my start of the year post from January. The closing was “2019 has some serious potential.” I had no idea what was to come...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | December 30, 2020 at 01:56 PM
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I’ve been doing little programming projects for my own amusement. I thought about doing Advent of Code like the cool kids are (Looking at you Mike Zamansky who...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | December 18, 2020 at 11:33 AM
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Recent conversations on Twitter and Facebook have had me thinking about the goals of teaching computer science in high school. There is no single goal and it probably...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | December 17, 2020 at 05:47 PM
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If you’re anything like me, you like to assign projects that have some relationship to what is going on in the world. Holidays are one such thing. December brings...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | December 14, 2020 at 09:46 AM
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Earlier this week I was a guest speaker in a computer science class (via Zoom of course). It was fun to be back into a class and interacting with students. Thehttps...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | December 3, 2020 at 09:01 AM
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Why do we program? Well, for some of us it is because we get paid to write code. For some it is part of our learning experiences. For a few it is the fun of it....Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | December 1, 2020 at 12:19 PM
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I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with code lately. One of the things I have been experimenting with is cryptography (See Tiny Book of Simple Cryptography)...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 29, 2020 at 08:35 PM
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There is quite the conversation going on in the private Computer Science Educators group on Facebook about teacher preparation for CS educators. This is a veryhighly...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 22, 2020 at 04:17 PM
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I've been playing with simple cryptography. Mostly stuff that was solid before computers. Just for fun mostly but some of it may make for interesting projects for...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 16, 2020 at 07:08 PM
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People are Microsoft always seem to be working on interesting and unexpected (to me anyway) things. My most recent discovery is TileCode. From the website:Microsoft...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 29, 2020 at 03:07 PM
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A professor friend on Facebook posted that a student emailed him to say that they textbook the were using was “crap.” I suggested in jest that he asked the student...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 14, 2020 at 01:45 PM
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My wife and I use these fitness trackers, ours are made by Garmin, to keep track of our activity during the day. Each day the devices give us a goal for how many...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 12, 2020 at 05:03 PM
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Last night I started re-reading Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. It’s an old book, written in the mid 1960s, so there are some old ideas about computers...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 4, 2020 at 03:18 PM
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Well, there is a new tool in town for programming micro devices like the Micro:bit and the AdaFruit Circuit Playground Express and many more! It's called MicroBlocks...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 1, 2020 at 07:28 PM
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Fall has come and while students are back in school I am not. I’ve been reflecting a bit about that. I don’t miss getting up at 6 AM and driving for close to an...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 22, 2020 at 11:09 AM
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Since I retired I have been reading more computer science related books. You may have read my book reviews on Humble Pi, Weapons of Math Destruction, or Computer...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 15, 2020 at 05:27 PM
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We’ve now finished the first week after Labor Day and at least in North America almost everyone is back to school. That may not mean physically back in a bricks...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | September 12, 2020 at 10:51 AM