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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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Project Learning
Joel Spolsky is an interesting guy with strong opinions about software development and the education of people going into software development. Recently he posted a blog article called Capstone projects and time management which is pretty critical of Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:49 PM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

Links Twittered April 13 2009
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Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 5:41 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Online Tech Communities for Students
There are lots of places online for students who are interested in technology to congregate and get information. Microsoft has been running the Channel 8 site for a while now for example. It has lots of videos, some by Microsoft people and some from students, Read More...

Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 9:43 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

IT Challenge 2009 Worldwide Competition for High School and College Students Ages 16 and Over
Attention all high school students 16 and over . Are you interested in information technology? Microsoft Imagine Cup Announces the IT Challenge 2009 Worldwide Competition for High School and College Students Ages 16 and Over . This worldwide competition Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:47 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

NATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE
Something for middle school science classes perhaps: The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) have partnered on this unprecedented initiative to educate, empower and engage students, teachers and Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:21 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Online Programming Contest for Canadian Students
The DWITE programming competition for Canadian high school students is ramping up again for the year. From their About page : The primary purpose of the DWITE Online Computer Programming Contest is to provide an avenue for Canadian secondary school students Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:06 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Imagine Cup – Student Environment & Technology Competition
The 2008 Imagine Cup finals is currently being held in Paris France. This international competition involves tens of thousands of university students around the world. This year’s theme is "Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment." Read More...

Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 12:09 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Above & Beyond Awards - Massachusetts
The Mass Technology Leadership Council is a great organization of people and companies in the high technology industry in Massachusetts. One of their big interests in supporting teachers who are using innovation in teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:58 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:45 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Dream Build Play 2008
Well I see over at the XNA Team Blog they have announced the latest Dream Build Play competition for people creating XNA Games for the XBOX 360. In Dream-Build-Play 2008 you can build your dream game to compete with other game developers around the world. Read More...

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 3:44 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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