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October 2026

1. 24 OctAI Is Getting Scary

September 2026

1. 23 SepProgramming Languages as Common Ground with AI

August 2026

1. 3 AugComputer Science is Not Just Coding and Its NOT Dying

July 2026

1. 16 JulPost CSTA 2026 Thoughts
2. 15 JulCSTA 2026 Day Three
3. 15 JulCSTA 2026 Day Two
4. 14 JulRobots at CSTA 2026
5. 14 JulCSTA 2026 Day One

June 2026

1. 30 JunPreviewing CSTA 2026
2. 22 JunMy Favorite Software Development Role
3. 13 JunWhat is wrong with this button?

May 2026

1. 30 MayWe Must Still Teach Computer Science in High School
2. 25 MayArtificial Intelligence and Making Bread

March 2026

1. 30 MarTalking Artificial Intelligence With Richard Crane from MILL5
2. 3 MarComputer Programming or Software Development
3. 1 MarSelling AI Before It’s Time

February 2026

1. 23 FebWho Is Driving Changes to Computer Science Education
2. 7 FebAI Tutors and the Human Connection
3. 1 FebReminiscing - When Computers Had Lights

January 2026

1. 30 JanCS Teacher Improvement Through Observation
2. 28 JanAre AI Code Assistants Getting Better or Worse
3. 26 JanRotWords–String Manipulation Project
4. 25 JanDice As a Design Problem
5. 20 JanFunding for CS Educational Tools
6. 9 JanBinary Math–Subtracting by Adding

December 2025

1. 27 DecAI Written Code and Making Assumptions
2. 11 DecComputer Science Education Week Greeting Cards
3. 9 DecHow Much Debugging Knowledge Do CS Teachers Need
4. 3 DecAre We Really Teaching Artificial Intelligence

November 2025

1. 29 NovTeaching Reading Code–More Important Than Ever
2. 27 NovMonty Hall Problem and the Problem of Artificial Intelligence
3. 19 NovCS Education Researchers On Regrets
4. 4 NovFlag on the Play AI Let Me Down

October 2025

1. 31 OctUnexpected Help With Coding Projects
2. 26 OctUser Interfaces and Microwaves and Artificial Intelligence

September 2025

1. 4 SepAn Interesting School Year in Computer Science Education

August 2025

1. 24 AugTiny Book of Simple Cryptography
2. 15 AugHas Computer Science Education Become Too Vocational?
3. 15 AugReading Code For Fun and Learning

July 2025

1. 20 JulTech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?
2. 7 JulThoughts on Advance Placement Computer Science Results

June 2025

1. 30 JunTeaching Computer Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

April 2025

1. 21 AprDifferent High School Computer Science Strands
2. 15 AprHardware–Heat and Cold
3. 9 AprSoftware Learning Stories - Comments
4. 8 AprSoftware Learning Stories–Bugs are Undependable
5. 7 AprSoftware Learning Stories–Constants

March 2025

1. 31 MarTeaching The Writing of Secure Code
2. 25 MarHigh School Cybersecurity Course–What Belongs
3. 23 MarShould K-12 CS Education Be About Belonging in CS
4. 7 MarRethinking High School Computer Science

February 2025

1. 25 FebWriting Directions Is Hard
2. 21 FebCSTA Ends Free Membership

December 2024

1. 31 DecH1B AI and the Future of Computer Science education
2. 28 DecThree Keys To Being A Great Teacher
3. 1 DecDecember Adventure–Write some Code Everyday

November 2024

1. 26 NovHour of Code and Corporate Involvement in CS Education
2. 25 NovArtificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Hexapawn
3. 21 NovInterested in Industry Visitors to Your CS Class?
4. 19 NovOnline Programming Environments are Poor Preparation
5. 18 NovDoes AI Mean The End Of Teaching Programming
6. 17 NovChanges in Social Media Where to Find Me
7. 2 NovCSTA New England Conference 2024–Exhibit Hall

October 2024

1. 19 OctNCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award

August 2024

1. 21 AugQuestions Keeping Me Awake Tonight

July 2024

1. 21 JulPost CSTA 2024 Thoughts
2. 19 JulCSTA Day Four
3. 19 JulCSTA Day Three
4. 18 JulCSTA 2024 Exhibit Hall
5. 18 JulCSTA Day Two
6. 17 JulCSTA Day One
7. 14 JulCSTA At 20 Looking Back #CSTA2024

June 2024

1. 21 JunAdvice To First Timers at #ISTE24 or #CSTA2024

March 2024

1. 27 MarPangrams Anyone?

February 2024

1. 27 FebAlphabet? What alphabet?
2. 18 FebAI Debuggers?

December 2023

1. 18 DecHow Much Hardware Knowledge Do CS Students Need
2. 13 DecLooking Forward to Computer Science Education in 2024
3. 10 DecLooking Back on Computer Science Education 2023

October 2023

1. 29 OctSpelling Bee Solver Project
2. 24 OctLast Call for CSTA Conference Proposals
3. 17 OctThe More You Know The More You Expect

September 2023

1. 11 SepReimagining CS Pathways: High School and Beyond

August 2023

1. 11 AugDo You Remember Struggling to Learn?

July 2023

1. 12 JulThoughts on CSTA Conferences Past and Present

June 2023

1. 6 JunConversations on AI in Education
2. 5 JunLet’s Try it and Find Out

May 2023

1. 25 MayCoding With AIs Prompts Are Important

March 2023

1. 18 MarFinding Words With All The Letters Programming project
2. 14 MarBook Recommendations for CS People

February 2023

1. 23 FebDoes It Run in the IDE?
2. 14 FebPeople Are Bad At Giving Instructions
3. 12 FebCS Students–Learn Your IDE

January 2023

1. 27 JanRhode Island Computer Museum
2. 23 JanWhat Jobs Are Safe From Automation?

December 2022

1. 31 DecLooking Back and Looking Forward in CS Education 2023
2. 19 DecThoughts on Optimization of Code
3. 17 DecCoding with ChatGPT–Armstrong Numbers
4. 4 DecWhen Computers Write Code
5. 2 DecAdventures in Taking Code From the Internet

November 2022

1. 12 NovCSTA New England Regional Conference #cstaNE2022

October 2022

1. 25 OctThe Computer Science Professional Development Problem
2. 7 OctMicro:Bit Programming for Grades K to 3 With #MicroCode

September 2022

1. 28 SepHow Far We Have Come With Programming Languages
2. 22 SepDealing With Student Misconceptions
3. 20 SepCoding It Yourself Can Be Fun
4. 3 SepNames Have Power – Names and Programming

August 2022

1. 17 AugA Spoon Full of Computer Science
2. 16 AugArtificial Intelligence and CS Education
3. 13 AugCyber Security and CS Education

July 2022

1. 28 JulJacdac and Micro:Bit 2.0–First Look
2. 19 JulFreedom To Teach Computer Science Our Way
3. 18 JulA Summary Look Back at #CSTA2022
4. 17 JulMy Day Four at #CSTA2022
5. 16 JulMy Day Three at #CSTA2022
6. 15 JulMy Day Two at #CSTA2022
7. 15 JulAmazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft at #CSTA2022
8. 15 JulDay One #CSTA2022
9. 12 JulDice, Simulations, and Math
10. 11 JulGetting Ready for #CSTA2022
11. 5 JulTeaching Computer Science–Moving atoms not pixels
12. 3 JulWelcome New Computer Science Teachers

May 2022

1. 16 MayBINGO Inspired Projects
2. 14 MayTeach CS in K-12? Please Help Gather Data

April 2022

1. 13 AprLast Mile Education Fund–Making a Big Difference

March 2022

1. 22 MarWord Games and Cryptography
2. 8 MarAPCS A–Java or Python?
3. 7 MarWhat Should APCS A Really Be About?
4. 6 MarFinal Thoughts on SIGCSE 2022
5. 5 MarSIGCSE 2022 Day 3
6. 4 MarSIGCSE 2022 Day 2
7. 3 MarSIGCSE 2022 Day 1

February 2022

1. 24 FebFun With Rounding Errors
2. 17 FebTroubles with Error Messages

January 2022

1. 27 JanWhat Do Computer Science Teachers Need For Professional Development
2. 25 JanWriting The Wordle Clone
3. 17 JanComputer Science for the sake of ?
4. 13 JanPlanning Before Coding
5. 11 JanHow Do You Define a Computer Scientist
6. 7 JanWordle Solving For Fun and Coding
7. 5 JanIs Wordle A Project To Assign Students to Program?

December 2021

1. 31 DecLooking Back on Computer Science Education in 2021
2. 6 DecComputer Science Education Week 2021
3. 4 DecFirst - Understand the Problem

November 2021

1. 8 NovMoney is Hard in Programming
2. 4 NovHow Many Ways to Make a Dollar

October 2021

1. 1 OctDefine Learn To Code

September 2021

1. 26 SepPhun With Phone Numbers
2. 24 SepAn AI Tutor for CS Education
3. 20 SepBook Review–System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

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