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Last week I received two messages about the IT History Society – one through the SIGCSE mailing list and one a personal message from the Society’s Chair. It looks interesting and useful so I decided to share it. In 2007, the IT History Society ( http://ithistory.org ) was formed (information technology...

Lots of interesting posts by computer science teachers last week. And some news from various sources to share. But let’s start with the teacher blog posts. Kathleen Weaver writes about her experiences with Programming for Windows Phone 7 for teachers and students . Kathleen has a couple of applications...

Last week someone on the SIGCSE mailing list mentioned that they learned to program in FORTRAN, using punch cards on an IBM 1130 . Well so did I and I said so. This seemed to have opened the floodgates of nostalgia (lots of us on the list seem to be old where old is defined as my age or older). I told...

It’s the end of the year for a lot of us. Not the calendar year of course but the school year or the fiscal year. I’ve been working on my input for my year end review a lot this week. And doing some preparation for NECC (I’ll be there from Friday of this week on – hope to see some of you there.) and...

A real mix of things this week. Hopefully there is something useful and/or interesting for you. In my own blog the post I write Saturday night ( Real Life Is An Open Book Test ) seems to have gotten more traffic that anything I’ve posted recently. If you haven’t seen it please take a look, read the comments...

I was on jury duty for most of this week. That took up quite a bit of my time and I didn’t have much time for blogging, Twittering or much else of what I usually do during my work days. I did manage to collect a few good links though. Some came from Twitter (follow me @ AlfredTwo ), come came from email...

This is my Ada Lovelace Day post as promised in January . Today well over a thousand bloggers are posting posts about women in technology who they admire. The goal is the present role models to young women and girls as well as to highlight and honor the fact that technology is not just a man’s thing...

One of the questions that frequently comes up when I give career talks is “ will the future provide tools that regular people can use that will mean that we will not need programming?” We see the occasional articles such as this one titled “ A future without programming ” that inspired this post and...

The old saying is that “ those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ” Does that apply to computer science and information technology? Oh yes it does. Well I think it does. Look at today’s use of “thin clients” connected to servers. Is that very different from block mode terminals...