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Friday, May 16, 2008 1:08 PM

Links from my talk at Stevens Institute of Technology

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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Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:12 AM

Updates on Beginning Programming Languages

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
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:20 AM

Top November Posts

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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Monday, November 05, 2007 4:12 AM

My Ideal First Programming Language

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
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments
Monday, May 21, 2007 3:21 AM

Irrelevant Programming Languages

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
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:07 AM

Variables Late or Variables Early?

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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Sunday, February 18, 2007 2:05 AM

"Scratch"ing the Programming Itch

Friday and Saturday I was at MIT (specifically the famous Media Lab ) learning about a programming platform/language for young people. The language is called Scratch and I may have blogged about it before. This weekend was the first time I really got
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