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Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson

Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic in high school and middle school. Alfred is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft and is trying to be the Microsoft Education Blogger.

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Creating Games with XNA® Game Studio and C#
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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:37 AM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

Workshop Links September 17 2009
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 Read More...

Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:25 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

What Does It Take to Make Change in CS Education?
This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial’s blog post What changes CS Education? which you of course must read. No really. I’ll even wait. Back? OK a key summary jumped out at me: My first pass analysis suggests that, to make change in CS, invent Read More...

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 3:36 PM by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments

Interesting Links Labor Day 2009
I’m not really working today. Well just this post really. For the most part I have been largely offline for Labor Day weekend. Enjoying family, sun, books, and relaxing. My wife and son start school with their students tomorrow. They’ve been doing the Read More...

Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 11:41 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

New XNA Curriculum Resources
Updated with additional links on September 3rd 2009. Introduction to Programming Through Game Development Using Microsoft XNA Game Studio Introduction to Programming Through Game Development Using Microsoft XNA Game Studio - Chapter 1: Computers, C#, Read More...

Posted Saturday, August 29, 2009 6:07 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Making a List, Checking it Twice
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Posted Friday, June 26, 2009 12:29 PM by Alfred Thompson | 9 Comments

Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0
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Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 10:32 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Real Life Is An Open Book Test
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Posted Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:46 PM by Alfred Thompson | 6 Comments

Latest XNA Curriculum Resources
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Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:24 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Interesting links Twittered May 25 2009
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 9:18 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Learn Programming with XNA: Curriculum Available Now
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Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 4:09 PM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

Reading to Learn How To Write
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Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:01 PM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Programming Languages Side By Side
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Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:21 AM by Alfred Thompson | 13 Comments

Pong – A Simple hands on lab for XNA Game Studio
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Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:36 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

New Resources for the the Faculty Resource Center
The the Faculty Resource Center which is easily reached from the Faculty Connection site has had some reorganization lately. And some new resources added. One piece is a number of Special Collaboration Areas. A couple that may be of interest to high school Read More...

Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 5:24 AM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

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