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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. If you are a Twitter user you can follow Alfred at @AlfredTwo<\a>

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Brute Force or is there an easy way?
This year being ‘10 has lead to a lot of talk about numbers that look like binary numbers 1/11/10 or 11110 for example. Related to this is talk about palindrome dates. For example with a leading zero 1/11/10 becomes 011110 which is the same backwards Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:15 AM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

Interesting Links January 4th 2010
Happy New Year everyone. Are you back to school or work yet? I took two weeks off and really enjoyed myself. I didn’t spend much time on the Internet as usual so I’m behind on Twitter and blogs and pretty much everything. I had written some posts to appear Read More...

Posted Monday, January 04, 2010 6:11 AM 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

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

Project Euler – Math Programming Projects
Oh you math teachers are going to love this one. No, really you will. And honestly it may encourage some of your programming students who don’t think they like math to get interested. I’m talking about a web site called Project Euler . There are well Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:38 AM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

Teacher Tech Tuesdays January 2009
The Teacher Tech Tuesday program (last blogged about here ) is dedicated to helping teachers and academic administrators get more out of Microsoft products. The goal is to help bring technology in to classrooms as a tool to teach other subject and not Read More...

Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 6:01 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Interactive Geometry Tool
The Live Geometry project is “A computer model of plane geometry that allows you to create interactive ruler and compass constructions and experiment with them.” Looks very cool to me. I can imagine lots of ways for teachers and students of geography Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:16 AM by Alfred Thompson | 8 Comments

Teacher Favorite Templates: Ms. Stivers for 6th and 7th grade
OK these teacher templates recommendations from LeeAnn Stivers who teaches at the International School in Bellevue, Washington look awesome to me. Grade book, curriculum planners, a seating chart tool using PowerPoint and more. They were all done for Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:43 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Math In Office
OK here is another link for you math teachers out there. Murray Sargent has a blog called Math in Office that as you might expect focuses on mathematics related features and tools with Microsoft Office. Sample interesting looking posts include: Hidden Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:39 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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