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Welcome to this week’s collection of interesting links. Some of these I found on Twitter, some on various blogs, and some came by email from various people. I hope you find something useful here. The Innovative Teacher Network is now the new Partners
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This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial’s blog post What changes CS Education? which you of course must read. No really. I’ll even wait. Back? OK a key summary jumped out at me: My first pass analysis suggests that, to make change in CS, invent
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As I put this summary together I’m just about ready to head to Redmond WA by way of Seattle in the morning. Early in the morning. Even earlier than my wife gets up to go to school. It’s my first trip to the Microsoft headquarters area in over
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I keep doing sets of links to hand out at various conferences. It seems like every time I do the list comes out a little differently. Some new things. Some things have new addresses. And the order of things changes for the audience. This list is from
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Robotics, C#, Computer Science Education, Microsoft, Visual Studio, XNA, Game Programming, education, Programming, fun, Conferences, scratch, first programming experience, Alice, DreamSpark, Small Basic
Over at the teaching computers to kids website I found a link to kidslike.info . This site is dedicated to providing free tools for teaching computer science, math and science. They are promising more subjects in the future. I found a number of interesting
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I keep learning cool things from Twitter. No really. The people I follow are often doing interesting and educational things and sharing via Twitter. Last week someone posted a Tweet about http://learnscratch.org/ . I made a note to visit the site and
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I spent yesterday at a large STEM event in Denver Colorado. Something like 1,500 middle school girls were brought to the Colorado Convention center for workshops and talks about science, technology and engineering. My colleague Hilary Pike conducted several
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Computer Science Education, STEM, Game Programming, education, Programming, scratch, first programming experience, Alice, Popfly, Small Basic, middle school
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/16/links-from-my-talk-at-stevens-institute-of-technology.aspx'; Yesterday I gave one of the keynote talks at Stevens Institute of Technology’s second annual high school computer science workshop
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I would imagine that a lot of people are looking for interesting things to do with brand new computers this week. Some people are (I hope) looking for ways to teach young people about programming. Or perhaps you are looking for your self regardless of
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Filed under: Robotics, Computer Science Education, Web Development, XNA, Game Programming, education, Programming, fun, Conferences, scratch, first programming experience, Alice
November was an interesting month in some ways. It seems that when I really lay out an opinion piece it attracts more attention in both readers and comments. At the same time some informational posts quietly attract a lot of readers as well. Is Computer
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Long before I ran into graphical/drag and drop programming languages for kids like Scratch and Alice I was thinking about some thing similar. What I wanted was a tool that allowed a beginner to write their own programs without syntax and syntax errors
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Mark Hendrickson from O'Reilly has an interesting review of the market for computer books in a four part series. The fourth part examines the programming language book market. I have no doubt that it is a valuable discussion for people who are thinking
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Text Books, C#, C++, Computer Science Education, Careers, education, Programming, books, scratch, first programming experience, rant
One of the shining stars of teaching computer science in recent years is the Alice environment. There is some early research and many anecdotal tales of great success using this tool for teaching beginning programming. I must admit that I like it myself.
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