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 . Ursula Wolz , The College of New Jersey, was a tough act to follow with her great presentation/demo on Scratch . Scratch is one of my favorite teaching tools and I learned several things about it that I didn’t know. And then it was my turn. I did

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 your age. Well it seems like this is also a time when I am finding updates on some of the popular and more interesting beginning programming languages. For example I received an announcement from the Scratch team about a conference they are running

I see that Dare Obasanjo has updated his wonderful article on C# From A Java Developer's Perspective . It's a great read and if you are a Java programmer (or have students who know Java) and want to get into some of the things that are cool about C# like XNA Game Studio or Microsoft Robotics Studio that article may be just the place to start. Please vote! var bt_counter_type=1; var bt_project_id=1181; Technorati tags: Csharp , Java , programming

This is an open ended sort of question. There are some young people who really "get" computers and software development early. These are the kids who create their own web browser , or set up the school's web site, or create the game program that all the kids are playing during their free time. They are hacking together hardware and software to do interesting (and occasionally useful) things. They do know more than their teachers (about computer's a computer development at least) and often know far