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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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The Language is NOT the Important Thing
Invariably when anyone posts about “the right” programming language to use in a first course a lot of discussion ensues. People are notoriously opinionated about this topic. I am not exempt from this and I admit that I have fallen into this trap in the Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:58 PM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

Trip Report – Summit (NJ) Schools
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/28/trip-report-summit-nj-high-school.aspx'; Last week I took a trip down to Summit High School to take part in a teacher workshop day. There were about 200 teachers from the high school and middle Read More...

Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 7:58 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

More on the GDCSE Conference
So I'm still way behind on blogging to say nothing of my email. I spent the last day as a vacation day with my father who I don't see often enough. I've also been fixing his computer, showing how to use his new GPS device, and setting up his DVD player. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:56 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Update on Summer 2008 Alice & Media Computation Workshops
Barbara Conover, Project Manager, Center for Visualization (Alice Grants) sent me the following information about Alice and Media Computation workshops being run this coming summer. If you are interesting in either Alice or Media Computation as good ways Read More...

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 7:05 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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