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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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Math, English, Binary, Computer Science, What a Mix
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Posted Friday, August 07, 2009 11:05 AM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

Useful Links Twittered June 1 2009
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Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 8:54 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Hiding Files in Plain Sight
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Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 4:14 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Interesting Links Twittered and Otherwise May 11th 2009
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Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 5:41 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Exploring Binary
The latest blog to be added to my RSS reader (I use RSS Bandit) is the aptly named Exploring Binary . Some interesting posts there already. For example Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C What Powers of Two Look Like Inside a Computer Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:22 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Friday Links 101008
I have a small backlog of interesting links so I decided to group some of them in this post. Some are different from what I usually post and some are more typical. But I think they are all interesting to someone who is likely to be reading this blog. Read More...

Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 5:09 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Binary Number Game
I love binary numbers. I was first taught about different number systems in grade school and was fascinated with them immediately. I used to convert decimal numbers into different base numbers just for the fun of it. So I guess it is not surprising that Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:14 AM by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments

Binary, Hex, Octal - Does Anyone Care Anymore?
As the old joke goes there are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand Binary and those who don't. There seem to be fewer of those Binary understanding people in the world today. Or do I just ravel in the wrong circles? Does computer science Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:33 PM by Alfred Thompson | 10 Comments

Thinking About Numbers - Decimal, Binary and Roman
One of the things I found to be a little bit scary was how limited the understanding so many high school students had about the nature of numbers. Oh sure they understood the difference between real number and integers and they had a sense of the scale Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:54 AM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

Telling Time in Binary
My wife got me a binary clock for Christmas. It has a number of settings. It can tell time in 12-hour or 24-hour time and it can tell it in binary coded decimal or true binary. Now I admit that I'm not as up on binary as I should be. The days when I had Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:15 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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