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• What does it look like?

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 460
  Every so often someone suggests a project and I ask myself “ why wasn’t I clever enough to think of that?” Actually it happen more often than I would probably like to admit. There are a lot of really good out of the box thinkers in education. The other day was just such an example. And I learned about it on ...
  4 days ago

• National Computer Science Education Week

  
  CCC Blog — Authority: 104
  Congress has resolved that the week of December 7 will be designated as “National Computer Science Education Week.”  Organizations such as the ACM , CRA , and NCWIT , along with industrial partners, are planning to use this week to promote awareness of computer science education. The NSF has invested in a ...
  1 week ago

• Dirk Van Gucht, Towards a Theory of Search Queries

  
  I'd rather play golf — Authority: 110
  On Wednesday I attended a lecture entitled “Towards a Theory of Search Queries” presented by Dirk Van Gucht of Indiana University . The talk summarized the results that were published earlier this year in a paper [1] of the same name at the 12th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) (ACM version ...
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• Creating Games with XNA® Game Studio and C#

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 460
  New High School Computer Science Course Creating Games with XNA ® Game Studio and C# Fall 2009 Recruit students to your schools’ computer science classes by adding a new game development course! Students will develop computer science knowledge and skills by learning how to program in C# ...
  1 week ago

• Dealing With Complexity

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 460
  I had an interesting conversation with two teachers last week. One the chair of the computer science of a large state university and the other a teacher in a career/technical high school. We were talking about how beginning programming students worked on their programs. I said that time and again I’d seen students ...
  2 weeks ago

• Interesting Links November 9 2009

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 460
  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 weeks ago

• Pre-Collegiate Faculty Connection Redesign

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 460
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• But I Don’t Want to be a Programmer

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 460
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sequencing

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 460
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Interesting Links Post November 2 2009

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 460
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Learning To Write By Reading

  
  Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson — Authority: 460
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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