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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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But I Don’t Want to be a Programmer
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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:55 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Fun With Formulas
Last week I was in Denver for a large middle school STEM event. They had a large selection of workshops for well over 1,000 middle school girls. My co-worker Hilary Pike did three workshops while I took care of our booth. During a lull I had a chance Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:09 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Programming in Applications
First a true confession – regular expressions are a pain for me. Oh don’t get me wrong, I think they are wonderful things in their place. I took a couple of compiler related courses and I studied them seriously. But somehow I still struggle with them. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:21 AM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

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