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

There is a whole write-up about Microsoft's presence at the upcoming Maker Faire on the Coding 4 Fun blog . I've been hearing about some of this from my friends Mark Hayes and Sam Stokes who will be there at the Microsoft booth again this year. They went last year and had a blast. There is just so much cool stuff going on its hard to believe! Maker Faire is the ultimate Geek do it yourself event. Some information from the Coding 4 Fun site is below. Quick Facts Dates: Saturday and Sunday May 19 th