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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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Firestarter Event Series – Information about Microsoft Technologies
Are you a school or district IT person looking for more information about the latest Microsoft technologies. Or perhaps you are a teacher looking to introduce some of these technologies to your students. In either case these free sessions may be useful Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:36 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 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

Silverlight Developer Contest
I know that a lot of students are looking to learn new skills and show of the ones they have. And often having a project, particularly one with a potential cash prize, can inspire students just a little extra to learn something new. Plus the people behind Read More...

Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 2:22 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Learning How to Use Silverlight
Have you heard about Silverlight ? Have you ever wanted to learn how to use it yourself? If you haven’t heard about Silverlight I borrowed some text from the Silverlight home page to explain it. Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:50 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Friday Game News
OK it is the start of the long weekend – well once my wife gets back from school where she had just a little more to do to be ready for students on Tuesday. So it is time to think about some game news. OK so I’m thinking about more help to create games Read More...

Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 9:13 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Tutorial: 2D Game Development in Silverlight
Now this looks interesting – a tutorial to create a game using Microsoft’s Silverlight technology . The article describes how to implement a game loop, render images and shapes, the handling of keyboard events, and how to do some simple collision detection. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:10 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

An Analog Computer Clock
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/28/an-analog-computer-clock.aspx'; Every so often I like to highlight some technology that is just plain cool. The clock below is one such. Michael Scherotter created this watch image using a Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:59 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Silverlight, Popfly, and other Software Trailers
I'm very lucky to be working with a bunch of bright young people. Well they don't always think of themselves as young but since I have a son older than most of them they seem young to me. These guys are talented in many areas but it is their use of new Read More...

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 11:10 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

Getting Started With Silverlight
The Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter is a one-day event providing developers and designers information on the concept behind Silverlight as a technology, what tools are useful in development and the knowledge in order to start building their own applications. Read More...

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 5:10 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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