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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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15 Free Computer Science Courses Online
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Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:58 AM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

More Free Windows 7 Training
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Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:03 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Windows 7 Learning Snacks
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Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:26 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

DreamSpark High School Now Open
Dreamspark is a program that Microsoft first announced last year for college and university students. Ever since then a Dreamspark program for high schools has been “coming.” Well just before Christmas a beta version of the program and web site soft launched. Read More...

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 7:50 AM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

Is It Ever Too Early To Teach Security?
About 25 years ago, back in the mini-computer era, I was a developer in an operating system group. My team was working on a brand new print and batch spooling system. We were creating a system with a lot more power and flexibility than the previous system. Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:39 AM by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments

Singularity - A Research Operating System
Microsoft Research has released the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) and it is now available including source code, build tools, test suites and other materials. What is Singularity ? From the project site at CodePlex where you can get the RDK: Read More...

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 4:45 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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