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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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Blog Reviews – Begin Game Programming & Teaching CS to Kids
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Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:10 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

FDG 2009 Day Three
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Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:08 PM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

How To Do A Conference ID Badge Correctly
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Posted Saturday, April 25, 2009 11:49 PM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Happy New Year 2009
Well it is a new year. Last year was an interesting year in just too many ways to recount. But we have, in a sense at least, a chance for a fresh start with 2009. I wish my readers all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. But especially happy and Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 01, 2009 10:29 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Tetris for Small Basic
Talk about a great sample of the week – the Small Basic blog announces a version of the classic Tetris written in Small Basic . At a little over 500 lines of code (530ish) its a pretty cool and yet manageable game program. If you were thinking of writing Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:21 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 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

Why Isn’t Science Class Like This?
Well there is cost for one thing. And prep time for another. Oh wait, you don’t know what I’m talking about. Let me back up. Apparently at some sort of event the NVidia people wanted to show the difference between how a CPU works and a GPU (graphic processor) Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:22 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

trueSpace7.6 FREE Fully-featured 3D Authoring Package
Several months ago Microsoft acquired a company called Caligari largely because of their advanced 3D toolset called trueSpace . Well now the latest version of this powerful tool is available for free . Yes, the favorite price point for educational organizations! Read More...

Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 6:05 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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