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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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How Much Feedback Can You Give On Projects?
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Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:34 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

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IT Challenge 2009 Worldwide Competition for High School and College Students Ages 16 and Over
Attention all high school students 16 and over . Are you interested in information technology? Microsoft Imagine Cup Announces the IT Challenge 2009 Worldwide Competition for High School and College Students Ages 16 and Over . This worldwide competition Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:47 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

How To Study For A Computer Science Exam
Many years ago I came up with a personal philosophy about studying, especially cramming, for test taking. I looked at my peers and realized that a lot of them worked very hard to cram a lot of information into their heads in a short period of time to Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:54 AM by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments

Do Your Students Understand this Cartoon
Lots of people pointed out this cartoon recently. It's an example of an SQL Injection exploit of course and all the people who referenced it knew that right away. But how many regular (ie. non-geek, non-computing people) do understand it? Probably not Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:30 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

When the Second Programming Language is Harder to Learn
Mark Guzdial had an interesting blog post recently titled " Why is assessing learning about computing so hard? " The post is mostly about the limited amount of research available on computer science education. That is a problem I've worried about more Read More...

Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 3:15 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

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