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• Interesting Links November 9 2009

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  Welcome to this week’s collection of interesting links. Some of these I found on Twitter, some on various blogs, and some came by email from various people. I hope you find something useful here. The Innovative Teacher Network is now the new Partners in Learning Network , free public/private communities for ...
  2 days ago

• Pre-Collegiate Faculty Connection Redesign

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  Back a year or so ago Microsoft opened the Pre-collegiate faculty connection web portal to share resources for computer science, computer programming, web development and other related teaching areas. It’s been a pretty successful site with tens of thousands of teachers visiting it for news and resources. This ...
  5 days ago

• But I Don’t Want to be a Programmer

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  One of the things I hear pretty regularly is that not everyone needs (or wants) to be a programmer. Some people want or perhaps even need to do some programming or more generally programming like activities but they don’t want to be full time programmers or computer scientists. These people can be a lot more ...
  6 days ago

• Sequencing

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  Imagine you had a pickup truck that you used for work. One day the person in charge of company vehicles says to you “we’re going to replace your pickup truck with a Prius. We’ll be saving money on gas. Isn’t that great?” You of course reply with something like “But I need the room in the back of a pickup ...
  1 week ago

• Interesting Links Post November 2 2009

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  One interesting thing that happened to me this past week was that Twitter enabled the list function for my Twitter account (@ AlfredTwo ) Lists are a way to create lists or groups of the people you follow on Twitter. One can open up your lists ( or public lists created by others) and see the recent tweets by the ...
  1 week ago

• Learning To Write By Reading

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  One of the most useful learning experiences I have had was working with editors. These talented people read my prose and make corrections, suggestions, edits, deletions and make some very helpful comments. Over time this has improved my writing quite a bit. Though of course it could still be a lot better. At the same ...
  2 weeks ago

• Small Basic 0.7

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  Small Basic is a great little project out of Microsoft’s DevLab that I have been following for a while. It’s a simple, little Basic language and IDE that harkens back to things like Qbasic and GBBasic and other early versions of BASIC that many of us cut our programming teeth on. The latest version has a feature ...
  2 weeks ago

• SMDB 2010 paper submission deadline extension

  
  I'd rather play golf — Authority: 108
  The forthcoming 2010 Workshop on Self-managing Database Systems will be held on March 1, 2010, collocated with the 2010 IEEE Data Engineering conference in Long Beach, California. In early October, Shivnath Babu , PC chair for SMDB 2010, along with the Executive Committee of the IEEE Workgroup on Self-managing ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Week For Computer Science Education

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  Have you seen the announcement about Computer Science Education week yet? Congress has passed a resolution designating the week of December 7 as Computer Science Education Week. This week was selected because it covers the time of Grace Hopper’s birth anniversary. I think that is a wonderfully fitting time period ...
  2 weeks ago

• Workshop Links September 17 2009

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  One of the things I like to demo and to have people do as sort of a “Hello World” for XNA Game Studio is create a simple Pong game. I did this demo today (well technically I will do it this afternoon) and thought I should make the materials more easily available. So I have uploaded them to Skydrive at the links ...
  3 weeks ago

• Web 2.0 and Other Educational Resources from Microsoft

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  OK, this may not be the definitive index to Microsoft resources for teachers but it’s close. Something for everyone from elementary school English teachers to high school science teachers (check out the world wide telescope) to high school computer science teachers. Lots to choose from. Web 2.0 and Other ...
  4 weeks ago

• Opinions on Supportive Curriculum Resources

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  I’m looking for some feedback. I’ve been working on the idea of creating and sharing some computer science related curriculum units. Some might be fairly comprehensive and some, well, let’s call them supplemental resources. The idea is to provide some helpful units that a teacher could incorporate into an ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hardware Matters

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 544
  A big focus of my time these days is on introduction to computer science courses. What might be called CS0 at the university level. basic courses to provide a foundation for later learning. Perhaps these courses will create or drive interest in additional courses. One of the topics that comes up in these courses is ...
  8 weeks ago

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