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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:16 PM

NECC 2008 Trip Report

The first thing you have to realize about NECC is that it is huge. There are somewhere between 12,000 and 13,000 attendees and about 4,000 exhibitor staff. There are 8-9 concurrent session slots a day with about 25 sessions in each slot. Plus there are
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:17 AM

Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium 2008

I’ve been to most of the CS & IT symposiums at NECC (and the one at SIGCSE) over the years but today’s was by far the best. Every year the speakers get better. The number and range of sessions gets better. The number of people gets larger (this year’s
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:53 AM

Articles About STEM Education

Lately (and about time if you ask me) the problem of computer science enrollment in particular and STEM (science, technology, engineering and Math) in general seem to be getting more attention. Here are a couple of articles that people have brought to
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 11 Comments
Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:56 AM

Getting Ready for NECC

It’s just over a week until I head out (down to?) San Antonio for this year’s National Education Computing Conference (NECC). I’ll start on Saturday the 28th with the annual CS & IT Symposium . This year’s event looks to be the best yet. I hope to
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:45 AM

A Whole Pile of Programming Competition Questions

I was looking through the web site for the HP Code Wars competition the other day and came across the page where they list the questions they have used in this annual high school programming competition since 1999. (The previous years questions – including
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:45 AM

May Posts in Review

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/06/03/may-posts-in-review.aspx'; May was an interesting month for me in several ways. One area that I struggled with though was blogging. Perhaps it is because the school year is winding down but
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:56 AM

Who Cares How Fast the Code Is?

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/27/who-cares-how-fast-the-code-is.aspx'; Ironically one of the problems teachers can have with teaching about optimizing programs is that computers are a) so fast now and b) getting faster all
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:28 AM

K-12 Computer Science Research Project

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/06/k-12-computer-science-research-project.aspx'; Note: I first published this back in July when most teachers were on vacation and I think didn't see this. I do believe this is a valuable research
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:47 AM

How is a Classroom Like a Pizza Place

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/01/how-is-a-classroom-like-a-pizza-place.aspx'; I grew up in New York (Brooklyn actually) and like many New Yorkers I have a distinct bias toward New York pizzas. So a blog post by Leigh Ann Sudol
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Friday, April 11, 2008 12:44 PM

Popfly in the Classroom - Trip Report

First the surprising secret - students today are not all that Web 2.0 knowledgeable. Now you wouldn't get that from the media but its true. Oh sure there are a lot of young people out there creating new media, using instant messaging tools, downloading
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Friday, April 11, 2008 7:39 AM

NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing

NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) is running an award program for high school women in the greater metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, and New York City Sponsored by Bank of America, the NCWIT
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:18 PM

History of Data Storage

Thanks to a link from Leigh Ann Sudol's blog I found this set of images and descriptions of some early computer data storage devices . I confess to having some old punch cards and I think some old magnetic tapes in the attic. I used punch paper tape as
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:04 PM

Bootstrapping XNA into High School Computer Science

I've been talking to a lot of schools lately that are experimenting with game development using XNA in their courses. For some of them at least some of the motivation is to attract more students into their computer science programs. Springbrook High School
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Monday, April 07, 2008 7:57 AM

Top Conversations In March

There were a number of blog posts with above average comment counts in March. The post I wrote about number systems in computer science had 9 comments. Pretty much everyone thought this was/is an important topic for computer science students. Personally
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Sunday, April 06, 2008 12:27 PM

Is There A Future For High School Computer Science?

OK that is a fairly provocative title. But I think it is actually a fair and reasonable question. The decision last week to drop one of the Advanced Placement Computer Science exams ( which I discussed here ) has brought a whole new level of discussion
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments
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