The Curious Engineer

Computer Science Teacher

2007–2012

1,225 posts

← 2005–2006

2012 109

September 2012

  1. Don’t Panic

August 2012

  1. Computer Controversies For Fun and Discussion
  2. Cloud Fundamentals Video Series
  3. Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
  4. Useful Download Links for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Development
  5. Interesting Links 27 August 2012
  6. Online Coding Exercises For Programming Education
  7. Interesting Links 20 August 2012
  8. How To Read Code
  9. Try Kinect at your K-12 School
  10. Recursion First
  11. Interesting Links 13 August 2012
  12. Public Sector TechBytes Series
  13. 2012 Microsoft US Forum Wrap Up
  14. You're invited to a Windows 8 DevCamp in city near you

July 2012

  1. Interesting Links 30 July 2012
  2. Curriculum is Hard
  3. Interesting Links 23 July 2012
  4. 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day One
  5. Interesting Links 16 July 2012
  6. Post CS & IT 2012 Thoughts
  7. Tip Calculator Hands On Lab for Windows Phone
  8. Computational Fairy Tales the Book
  9. Teaching Teachers
  10. Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Live Stream 2012
  11. Where is the computer science at ISTE?

June 2012

  1. Computer Science in the Common Core–Speak Up
  2. Studio K – Program to make Kodu Curriculum and Tools more accessible in Classrooms
  3. Why I Love Windows Live Mesh
  4. Microsoft Store Summer Camps are Now Open for Registration!
  5. So you want to teach computer science?
  6. There Is More To Computing Than Computer Science

May 2012

  1. How do they know they are interested?
  2. Kinect for Windows: SDK and Runtime version 1.5 Released
  3. Be What’s Next!
  4. What should the High School CS curriculum look like?
  5. Please Don’t Learn To Code
  6. Student Implemented SharePoint Solutions
  7. Learning Should Be Fun
  8. Game Design with XNA, Kinect and Windows Phone
  9. A reminder–CS & IT Conference 2012
  10. Interesting Links 7 May 2012
  11. New Podcast Series - The Campus Coder

April 2012

  1. Interesting Links 30 April 2012
  2. Fun is to Entertainment as Education is to Training
  3. US Imagine Cup Winners 2012
  4. Interesting Links 23 April 2012
  5. Computer Science Across the Curriculum
  6. Better Learning Through Movement
  7. Plagiarism v. Learning
  8. Interesting Links 16 April 2012
  9. Keeping it real
  10. Recognizing Teachers Who Recruit Women and Girls into STEM
  11. What Do Magic and Computer Science Have in Common?
  12. dream.build.play reminder
  13. Interesting Links Post 9 April 2012
  14. Learn The Cloud. Make A Difference. @home with Windows Azure
  15. Women In Computer Science–What Happened?
  16. 2012 US Imagine Cup People’s Choice Voting

March 2012

  1. Why Universities Should Host High School Programming Contests
  2. Who Is In Charge
  3. The Best and Most Innovative Teachers
  4. Interesting Links 19 March 2012
  5. ChronoZoom–a new way to look at history
  6. Pex4fun, an online lab for APCS
  7. Tic Tac Toe for Windows Phone
  8. Interesting Links 12 March 2012
  9. Using Kinect for Windows with XNA Curriculum
  10. CS 2012 Strawman Draft Comment Period Open
  11. More on Signing Up for DreamSpark and AppHub
  12. Interesting Links 5 March 2012
  13. Wouldn’t It Be Cool If…
  14. It Doesn’t Pay To Be Too Clever

February 2012

  1. Microsoft at SIGCSE 2012
  2. One week left to enter the Kinect Fun Labs Challenge!
  3. Interesting Links 27 February 2012
  4. Tutorials, Projects and Problem Solving
  5. Big Brother Knows More Than You Think
  6. Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum–Reminder
  7. ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Strawman draft
  8. Interesting Links 20 February 2012
  9. How To Start A Computer Science Flame War
  10. National STEM Video Game Challenge TweetChat
  11. Microsoft Developer Day: Entertainment Reimagined
  12. Magic Numbers Are Bad
  13. Interesting Links 13 February 2012
  14. Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching
  15. Hello From Texas
  16. Tools for Teaching Adults to Program
  17. Interesting Links 6 February 2012
  18. When Just Working Isn’t Good Enough
  19. Kinect For Windows Is Out
  20. No Room in the Inn–I Mean Schedule

January 2012

  1. Are You Applying for the 2012 US Forum?
  2. Interesting Posts 30 January 2012
  3. Kinect Sweepstakes For Schools
  4. Inviting ALL EDUCATORS to share their GREAT IDEAS
  5. We Need A Wider Conversation on CS Education
  6. One Option for How to Teach Kodu
  7. Interesting Links 23 January 2012
  8. Time Flies When Learning Is Fun
  9. Interesting Links 16 January 2012
  10. Teaching Teachers and Students Together
  11. Interesting Links 9 January 2012
  12. Kinect for FRC 2012
  13. CS & IT 2012–Participate Actively!
  14. Microsoft Bliink 2012 Illinois Web Design Competition
  15. Computer Science Orphans
  16. Interesting Links 02 January 2012

2011 220

December 2011

  1. Let’s go do some math
  2. Top Most Read Posts of 2011
  3. Kinect Educators
  4. One Compile A Day
  5. Textbooks–The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
  6. Help Shape the CSTA Annual Conference: Be a Proposal Reviewer
  7. CS AP Principles–UW Bothell
  8. Interesting Links 19 December 2011
  9. First Do No Harm
  10. Pick The Software First
  11. Creating Engineers One Student At A Time
  12. Year Up Visits the MTC
  13. Interesting Links 12 December 2011
  14. Why I’m Still Excited about Computer Science
  15. Computer Science Education Blog Roll
  16. Could You Pass the AP Computer Science Exam?
  17. Bentley’s CIS Sandbox
  18. Interesting Links 5 December 2011
  19. CS Bits & Bytes From the National Science Foundation

November 2011

  1. 12th Annual Computer Science & Information Technology Conference.
  2. Interesting Links 28 November 2011
  3. Programming for Absolute Beginners from Channel 9
  4. The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back
  5. Interesting Links 21 November 2011
  6. Big App On Campus
  7. Collection of Kinect in Education Links
  8. C# Mini Course
  9. Leading With Kinect
  10. Computer Science at the Microsoft Global Forum
  11. Python, Visual Studio and Kinect
  12. Teacher Trainer Professional Development Program
  13. How Many Sorting Algorithms Do Beginners Need To Learn
  14. What To Tell Students About Computer Science

October 2011

  1. Kinect-ing at the NJSBA Annual Workshop
  2. Interesting Links 24 October 2011
  3. More Access to the ACM Digital Library
  4. Imagine Cup as Group Projects
  5. How Many Jobs Are There For Poets
  6. New Hampshire TechFest 2011
  7. Interesting Links 17 October 2011
  8. Preparation to Teach High School Computer Science
  9. Teaching Kids to Read but not Write?
  10. Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo 2011
  11. Interesting Links 10 October 2011
  12. Be The Robot
  13. Conversations in Kodu
  14. Quality of Testing and Quality of Code

September 2011

  1. When Fish Fly
  2. Robotics @ Home Competition
  3. Interesting Links 26 September 2011
  4. Computer Science Education Act
  5. Interesting Links 20 September 2011
  6. Game Development with XNA Curriculum–Semester Course
  7. Four Dimensional Tic Tac Toe
  8. Your Chance to Learn Windows Phone Development for Free
  9. Imagine Cup 2012–Changing The World For The Better
  10. What is an app?
  11. Interesting Links 12 September 2011
  12. NFTE World Series of Innovation
  13. ScriptTD: Tower Defense Game Creation Made Easy
  14. Windows Phone Mango Jump Start Workshop Now On Video
  15. Private Character Editor

August 2011

  1. Python Tools for Visual Studio V1.0 Released
  2. ACSL International Contest About to Begin
  3. Interesting Links 29 August 2011
  4. 2011 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
  5. Computational Thinking Leadership Toolkit
  6. Languages That Make You Think
  7. There Is Research On That
  8. Interesting Links 22 August 2011
  9. Ready or Not–New School Year About To Start
  10. Web-Based Problem Solving Software for Programming Courses
  11. Time To Cut The Cake
  12. Windows Phone Development Training Online
  13. Interesting Links 15 August 2011
  14. Low Level Programming
  15. Computer Science Before Programming
  16. Abstraction At The Core of Computer Science
  17. Interesting Links 8 August 2011
  18. Computational Tales
  19. i.am FIRST – Science is Rock and Roll
  20. Imagine Cup Projects–Making The World Better For Millions
  21. Congratulations Louis Zulli Jr. and Doug Bergman

July 2011

  1. Innovative Education Forum–Judging Day
  2. Innovative Educator Forum Judge Workshop
  3. Small Grants for CS Education
  4. Encapsulation–An Introduction
  5. Interesting Links 25 July 2011
  6. What does it mean?
  7. Are your students entered in the Windows Phone app contest
  8. Small Basic 1.0 is here!
  9. Interesting Links Post 18 July 2011
  10. Worldwide Telescope Tour Contest
  11. CS & IT 2011 Day 2
  12. CS & IT Conference Day 1 - 2011
  13. Interesting Links 11 July 2011
  14. Kinect Workshop at the Imagine Cup
  15. Student Media at the Imagine Cup
  16. A Post BASIC World?
  17. Interesting Links 5 July 2011

June 2011

  1. Windows Phones for Students
  2. Interesting Links Post 28 June 2010
  3. Home Grown Computer Camp
  4. Do We Really Want Digital Textbooks?
  5. Adventures in NUI Part 1
  6. Would You Like to Pilot a New Game Development Course?
  7. Microsoft at ISTE 2011
  8. Award Winning Keynoters at CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference 2011
  9. Interesting Links 20 June 2011
  10. Kinect SDK–Think Beyond the Mouse
  11. Is Internet Education the Answer
  12. US Kodu Cup Winners Announced (2011)
  13. Interesting Links Post 13 June 2011
  14. What is Digital Literacy? And is it enough?
  15. Computer Science Related Finalists in the Innovative Education Forum 2011
  16. TouchStudio–Script your Phone on Your Phone
  17. Programming is for Girls
  18. Student Insiders and Imagine Cup Game Teams
  19. So You Want To Teach Your Kids To Program?

May 2011

  1. Random Hacks of Kindness June 2011
  2. Atlanta (Georgia) Area Windows Phone Camp for Students
  3. Windows Phone 7 Games in Visual Basic
  4. Never Underestimate a 13-Year Old With a Computer and a Dream
  5. Data! I need more data!
  6. How Many Letters In An Alphabet
  7. Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers
  8. Programming Competition as Learning
  9. Always Mount A Scratch Monkey
  10. Interesting Posts 16 May 2011
  11. Returning Data From A Second Form
  12. University Computer Science Faculty Blogs
  13. What Can You Do With What You Know?
  14. Computer Science As Competitive Sport
  15. Programming with C# and XNA 0.5: Jump Start
  16. Interesting Links Post 9 May 2011
  17. Teaching Students To Create Their Own Business
  18. Kodu Cup Submission Deadline is May 10th 2011
  19. Mid Atlantic Developer Expo is Coming!
  20. Why Not C#
  21. Most Read Posts–April 2011
  22. Interesting Links 2 May 2011

April 2011

  1. Academic Feedback Survey–Closing May 1st 2011
  2. Where Do Female Computer Scientists Come From
  3. Problem Solving For All Times
  4. DreamSpark, AppHub and Windows Phone Development
  5. Interesting Links 25 April 2011
  6. Learning With Visualizations
  7. XNA Game Development Tutorial
  8. The Internet is the Answer for School Reform–Or Not
  9. Interesting Links Post 18 April 2011
  10. Boring is Bad
  11. Kinect For Windows is Coming
  12. Books for Computer Science Students
  13. Be Careful What You Wish For
  14. Champions for The US Imagine Cup 2011
  15. XozGaming–High School Team in the US Imagine Cup Finals
  16. Final US Imagine Cup Teams Announced - 2011
  17. US Imagine Cup Finals 2011– Up and Running
  18. Computer Science Curricula In Flux
  19. Imagine Cup Stories
  20. Cryptography is Hard
  21. After The APCS Exam
  22. Interesting Links 4 April 2011

March 2011

  1. Rock Paper Scissors Takes To The Cloud
  2. Interesting Projects–A Collection
  3. Interesting Links 28 March 2011
  4. Could Taking A Computer Science Course Change Your Life?
  5. FREE Microsoft Certification Exam Vouchers For Students
  6. US Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards
  7. Object Oriented Programming is Dead
  8. Programming Projects Using Arrays
  9. Interesting Links Post 21 March 2011
  10. Whack Something Game for Windows Phone 7
  11. Kodu Cup 2011
  12. Rebirth of DIY Software Development
  13. Heuristics–Programs that Learn
  14. Interesting Links 14 March 2011
  15. Python Tools for Visual Studio
  16. Webcast Series for K-12 educators and teacher recognition program
  17. Resources for Teaching Security
  18. What Is Computer Science All About
  19. CS Principles AP Course Pilots Wanted
  20. Free Pluralsight On-demand Training via Dreamspark
  21. Dream. Build. Play. is back for 2011
  22. New XNA Jump Start Mini-course
  23. The Body As Mouse
  24. The Credit Card Project

February 2011

  1. Interesting Links 28 February 2011
  2. FizzBuzz–A Programming Question
  3. Important News For Imagine Cup Game Teams - 2011
  4. Teaching, Learning and the Job Interview
  5. Interesting Links 21 February 2011
  6. What Does Watson Mean?
  7. New Software on DreamSpark
  8. Computing Education and Education Reform
  9. Interesting Links 14 February 2011
  10. Microsoft Innovative Educator Teacher Professional Development
  11. Making the Case for Becoming a Computer Science Teacher
  12. Interesting Links 7 February 2011–TCEA Notes
  13. Kindergarten Computer Science
  14. To Hack or Not to Hack
  15. Prototypes from Microsoft Education Labs
  16. Recursive Loops

January 2011

  1. 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum
  2. Interesting Links 24 January 2011
  3. R Waldo Roth–In Memorial
  4. Microsoft Math 4.0 and more
  5. Tell The Government What You Think about K-12 Computer Science Education
  6. Microsoft at TCEA 2011
  7. Registration now open for the Microsoft bliink Web Design Competition
  8. Why Experience Matters
  9. A Joint Call for Research on Why Computer Science Education is Important for K-12
  10. GiveCamp Across America
  11. Interesting Links 10 January 2011
  12. To IDE or Not To IDE
  13. Measure 21st Century Teaching and Learning at Your School Today!
  14. Seven Reasons to Teach Windows Phone Programming
  15. Imagine Cup News January 20111
  16. Interesting Links 3 January 2011
  17. My Most Read Posts of 2010

2010 203

December 2010

  1. Top Ten Indications You Are A Computer Industry Newbie
  2. Interesting Links 27 December 2010
  3. High School Computing Is Boring
  4. Thinking Speed over Typing Speed
  5. How not to teach programming
  6. Interesting Links 20 December 2010
  7. Computer Science Teacher Education
  8. Microsoft bliink…a web design competition for high school students
  9. CS&IT 2011 — Call for Proposals
  10. Free E Books from Microsoft
  11. Interesting Links 13 December 2010
  12. Does learning have to stop when the last bell rings?
  13. Four Key Concepts of Computer Programming
  14. Top Read Posts from November 2010
  15. Characteristics of a Good Programming Project
  16. Do We Need A New Teaching Programming Language

November 2010

  1. Artificial Intelligence and Game Programming
  2. Interesting Links 29 November 2010
  3. Does Learning Computer Science help anything else?
  4. Imagine Cup Insider–Announcing IC Solve This
  5. Student Access to the AppHub for Windows Phone 7
  6. Wisdom in Lists–Really?
  7. Pledge to Participate in and be a Supporter of Computer Science Education Week!
  8. Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners
  9. Interesting Links 15 November 2010
  10. EduBlogger Nominations 2010
  11. Lines Can Be Fun
  12. XNA and Game Development and Expression Web and Web Design Talks
  13. Microsoft Technology Associate Certifications Revisited
  14. How Does Kinect Work?
  15. Interesting Links 8 November 2010
  16. Three New Chances to Get Involved in the Imagine Cup
  17. Teaching real-world programming
  18. Interesting Links 1 November 2010

October 2010

  1. Microsoft Free Tools for Teachers
  2. An Exploratory Computer Science Course
  3. Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge
  4. Welcoming Andrew Parsons to the US Academic Team
  5. Interesting Links 25 October 2010
  6. New Hampshire TechFest 2010
  7. Computer Class or Computer Science Class
  8. President Obama Recognizes Science Superstars
  9. Finding a Place For Computer Science Education
  10. Interesting Links 18 October 2010
  11. Kodu Kamp for Educators
  12. What does your school need?
  13. Kodu Programming For Kids
  14. What are you using?
  15. Interesting Links 11 October 2010
  16. Small Basic Curriculum
  17. Interesting Links 4 October 2010

September 2010

  1. Would you play this game?
  2. Interesting Links 27 September 2010
  3. Imagine Cup–Solving the Worlds Problems Through Software
  4. Pretty Code
  5. Interesting Links 20 September 2010
  6. NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2010
  7. Pex for Fun
  8. Being Careful About Examples
  9. How Many Letters Are There in The Alphabet?
  10. Interesting Links 13 September 2010
  11. Objects When? If Ever?
  12. Most Popular Posts From August
  13. How I Wound Up in Computer Science
  14. Visualizations and Sorting
  15. Interesting Links 6 September 2010
  16. Students And Intellectual Property Rights
  17. Dr. James Parrish–Interesting New Blog and Imagine Cup Advice
  18. DreamSpark–Software for Learning

August 2010

  1. Time To Mine the Data
  2. Interesting Posts 30 August 2010
  3. Error Messages and Providing Information
  4. Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Game Development
  5. Interesting Links Post 23 August 2010
  6. Shortening the Time To Fun
  7. Girls, Games and Software Development
  8. Free Microsoft Office Add-ins for Educators
  9. Interesting Links 16 August 2010
  10. Non-Myths About Programming
  11. Windows Phone 7 Sample applications
  12. Bytes by MSDN and TechNet
  13. Silverlight 4 XNA Platformer Level Editor for Windows Phone 7
  14. 10 Most Popular Posts June and July 2010
  15. What do you want in a Textbook
  16. Interesting Links August 3 2010
  17. Fixing the Computer Science Problem with an Act of Congress

July 2010

  1. EdChat Education Discussions on Twitter
  2. Interesting Links July 26 2010
  3. Teaching to the Test
  4. Over-Educated, Yet Under-Qualified?
  5. Interesting Links July 19th 2010
  6. Little Orphan Computer Science
  7. Advice For An Imagine Cup Team
  8. Microsoft Research Illuminates Mars in 3-D With WorldWide Telescope
  9. Interesting Links 12 July 2010
  10. Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Certifications
  11. Visual Programming Languages
  12. Interesting Links July 5 2010
  13. Career Outlook for CS Students

June 2010

  1. Conversations at ISTE
  2. Interesting Links 27 June 2010
  3. Kodu Game Lab - Classroom Kit
  4. Getting Close to ISTE Time
  5. How Many Types of Programmers are there?
  6. Multiple Paths into Computer Science
  7. Interesting Links 21 June 2010
  8. Critical Thinking
  9. A Show About Computer Programming
  10. Teaching Real Projects Workshop
  11. Interesting Links 14 June 2010
  12. Projects That Mean Something
  13. Inspiration – It’s what teachers do
  14. Interesting Links 7 June 2010
  15. New England Innovation Month 2010

May 2010

  1. Microsoft at ISTE 2010
  2. And here a miracle happens
  3. Blog Changes taking place
  4. Interesting Links 24 May 2010
  5. 2010 U.S. Innovative Education Forum!
  6. Quiet Period for This Blog
  7. Failure to Upgrade
  8. Assessment And Computer Science
  9. Programming and Excel
  10. Interesting Links 10 May 2010
  11. Point Them in a Direction and Get Out of the Way
  12. What do you need to know?
  13. Interesting Links 3 May 2010

April 2010

  1. Interesting Links 28 April 2010
  2. Interesting Links 27 April 2010
  3. US Imagine Cup Winners
  4. Windows Phone 7 Rockstar Award
  5. Finalists for the US Imagine Cup 2010
  6. Full Day One for US Imagine Cup Finals
  7. Opening Night US Imagine Cup Finals
  8. US Imagine Cup Finals This Weekend
  9. New Silverlight 4 Training Kit Available
  10. The Intersection of Education and Entertainment
  11. Interesting Links 19 April 2010
  12. Credentials or Knowledge
  13. Does Your Computer Lab Scare Away the Girls?
  14. Teachers Don’t Talk Enough
  15. K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop
  16. Visual Studio 2010 Now Available
  17. Interesting Links 12 April 2010
  18. Barriers and Strategies for K-12 Computer Science Teachers
  19. The Last Bug
  20. Interesting Links 5 April 2010
  21. Everything Is Changing in CS Education
  22. Resources for Teaching Binary Numbers

March 2010

  1. Exploring Problem-Solving Processes with Smithsonian and Microsoft
  2. Playing Video Games Will Not Get You a Job But Creating One Might
  3. Interesting Links 29 March 2010
  4. Where does Computer Science Belong?
  5. Curriculum, Companies, Cooperation and Conflict
  6. Ada Lovelace Day 2010
  7. Rethinking Hello World
  8. Interesting Links 22 March 2010
  9. Virtual Events for Educators and School Administrators
  10. New Teaching & Learning Resources for XNA and Web
  11. Windows Phone 7 Series Programming
  12. Thoughts On AP CS Principles
  13. Turning on a Paradigm
  14. Interesting Links 8 March 2010
  15. 10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer
  16. Upcoming Microsoft Teacher Leader Training Events
  17. Newsletters for Computer Science Teachers
  18. Say That Again in English

February 2010

  1. NASA Be A Martian Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
  2. Students to Business Career Streams
  3. Small Basic is Moving And Other Resources On the BDLC
  4. ASCII Art For Fun and Projects
  5. Interesting Links 22 February 2010
  6. Not being able to program a computer is like …
  7. Nostalgia
  8. Cheating In Computer Science Classes
  9. Where is the Computer Science at Education Technology Conferences?
  10. Make Haste Slowly
  11. Interesting Links 15 February 2010
  12. Programming Contests – for good or for ill
  13. Small Basic 0.8 Now with Silverlight
  14. New Windows 7 Track on Microsoft’s Certification Game!
  15. Interesting Links 8 February 2010
  16. Bliink Web Design Competition for Texas High School Students
  17. What Are You Learning This Summer
  18. Facebook Development
  19. Surprise and wonder in computer science
  20. Interesting Links 1 February 2010

January 2010

  1. Microsoft Institute Series for Teacher Leaders
  2. Can Movie Computer Screens Help Us Design Better
  3. DigiGirlz Days Spring Schedule
  4. So are there or are their not jobs in CS and IT
  5. Microsoft at TCEA
  6. Interesting Links 18 January 2010
  7. FETC Day 1 (2010)
  8. Brute Force or is there an easy way?
  9. Kodu Game-Creation Tool for Kids Adapted for the PC
  10. Computer Engineer Barbie?
  11. Interesting Links 11 January 2010
  12. Starter Resources for Robotics Learning
  13. Intel Schools of Distinction 2010
  14. High School Students Competing Against University Students
  15. Interesting Links January 4th 2010
  16. What Should We Teach Software Developers

2009 194

December 2009

  1. Monte Carlo Simulation - Roulette
  2. Keeping It Simple
  3. Women and Computer Science – Is It The Environment?
  4. Interesting Links December 21 2009
  5. Microsoft at FETC 2010
  6. Where to Find Computer Science Lectures Online
  7. Deploying XNA Games
  8. Interesting links December 14 2009
  9. Be Not Afraid
  10. Learning About Programming Language Design
  11. Web Development or Computer Science
  12. The Importance of History in Computer Science
  13. Computer Science Education Week Website is Live
  14. Let’s drop English from the curriculum
  15. Software Development – Old School V. New School
  16. Are you going to SIGCSE 2010?

November 2009

  1. Interesting Links and Twitter Lists
  2. Thoughts on the Edublogger Awards
  3. Interesting Links 23 November 2009
  4. Creating Games with XNA® Game Studio and C#
  5. Hacking and Ethics
  6. Interesting Links November 16 2009
  7. Dealing With Complexity
  8. Wait while I look that up on the Internet
  9. Interesting Links November 9 2009
  10. Pre-Collegiate Faculty Connection Redesign
  11. But I Don’t Want to be a Programmer

October 2009

  1. Loneliness of a Department of One
  2. Project Learning
  3. Learning To Write By Reading
  4. Interesting Links September 26 2009
  5. Small Basic 0.7
  6. Workshop Links September 17 2009
  7. Opinions on Supportive Curriculum Resources
  8. NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2009/10
  9. Games Are Serious Business
  10. What Sort Of Thing is Programming? Really?
  11. Interesting Links October 5 2009
  12. Who Designed That User Interface
  13. The Role Model Problem

September 2009

  1. Why Does Diversity Matter
  2. Interesting Links September 28th 2009
  3. Imagine Cup Game Design Competition
  4. Visual Basic Resources
  5. Show Me The Data
  6. What Does It Take to Make Change in CS Education?
  7. Engaging Students in Computer Science – Teacher Workshop in New Jersey
  8. Zune HD as a programming/teaching platform?
  9. Hardware Matters
  10. Documentation – It Really Does Have Value
  11. Firestarter Event Series – Information about Microsoft Technologies
  12. President Obama's "I Am What I Learn" Video Contest
  13. Youth CITIES (Creating Impact Through Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability)
  14. Latest Interesting Links September 1 2009

August 2009

  1. CareerForward: Career Preparation in a Global Economy (cFWD)
  2. New XNA Curriculum Resources
  3. Ready, Fire, Aim is not the way to buy computers
  4. Interesting Links August 24 2009
  5. In the land of the blind …
  6. New Windows Live Movie Maker Available
  7. Interesting Links August 18 2009
  8. Drive out fear
  9. 15 Free Computer Science Courses Online
  10. A Couple of Links August 11 2009
  11. CSTA Podcast Series
  12. Math, English, Binary, Computer Science, What a Mix
  13. Learning Because You Want To
  14. Have To Vs. Get To
  15. Interesting Links August 3rd 2009

July 2009

  1. Teacher Web Sites
  2. Who’s Afraid of Smart Machines?
  3. Interesting Links July 27th 2009
  4. What It Is Like to be A Student?
  5. RoboZZle – a social puzzle game
  6. On The Value Of Testing
  7. Summer Webcast Series for Interns and Recent Graduates
  8. Interesting Links Twittered July 20 2009
  9. Computer Science Teachers and Web 2.0
  10. Project Tuva – a new way to teach and learn
  11. When the power goes off in the computer lab
  12. Kodu Demo – Programming for little kids
  13. Are We Doing It Right?
  14. ScratchEd – Community site for educators using Scratch
  15. Blog Reviews – Thinking About Computer Science Education
  16. Interesting Links July 6th 2009
  17. Recruiting Young Women into & Retaining Them in Computing Majors

June 2009

  1. Jeannette Wing on Computational Thinking
  2. Gotta Have IT
  3. Recent Links of Interest June 29th 2009
  4. More To Do Than Can Ever Be Done
  5. Making a List, Checking it Twice
  6. Come Find Me at NECC
  7. Blog Reviews - Organizations
  8. XNA Game-Themed CS1 Lab Workbook
  9. Interesting Links June 22 2009
  10. Bing, Explicit Content and Safe Searching For Schools
  11. Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0
  12. Blog Reviews – Begin Game Programming & Teaching CS to Kids
  13. Interesting Links June 15 2009
  14. Real Life Is An Open Book Test
  15. Gadgets – Using and Creating
  16. Games As Database Projects
  17. How Much Feedback Can You Give On Projects?
  18. Latest XNA Curriculum Resources
  19. Useful Links June 8 2009
  20. It Ain’t Heavy It’s My Software
  21. Computers In The Court
  22. Useful Links Twittered June 1 2009

May 2009

  1. Computing at School Working Group
  2. Interesting links Twittered May 25 2009
  3. Hiding Files in Plain Sight
  4. Revisiting the GoTo Statement
  5. No You Can’t Use That Feature
  6. Ethical Killing Machines?
  7. A First Computer Science Course
  8. More Free Windows 7 Training
  9. Interesting Links Twittered and Otherwise May 11th 2009
  10. Learn Programming with XNA: Curriculum Available Now
  11. Reading to Learn How To Write
  12. Prime Numbers, Code Challenges, and Programming Languages
  13. Interesting Links May 4th 2009

April 2009

  1. FDG 2009 Day Four – Computers That Read Your Mind
  2. FDG 2009 Day Three
  3. FDC 2009 Day Two
  4. FDG 2009 Day One
  5. How To Do A Conference ID Badge Correctly
  6. Thoughts from a workshop
  7. Microsoft’s Student TV
  8. Windows 7 Learning Snacks
  9. Interesting Links April 20 2009
  10. 2009 Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) Symposium
  11. April 2009 Free eBooks from Microsoft Press
  12. Do Programming Languages Ever Die?
  13. Recruiting Young Women into, and Retaining Them in Computing Majors
  14. Where Does DreamSpark High School Fit In
  15. Links Twittered April 13 2009
  16. Teacher Tech Tuesday Erin Gruwell of the Freedom Writers Foundation
  17. Programming Languages Side By Side
  18. When Should Professional Development Be Offered?
  19. Recent Links Twittered April 03 2009
  20. Are You Ready to go to NECC? Register for the Microsoft Teacher Scholarship!
  21. Recursion

March 2009

  1. DigiGirlz Cambridge MA 2009
  2. When To Take Programming
  3. A Little Link Love
  4. Art and Computer Science
  5. Ada Lovelace Day – Women in Technology
  6. Alice Symposium Duke University June 17, 2009
  7. The Problem with Lists
  8. Turning Pro
  9. Monday Morning Links – March 03, 2009
  10. The Art of the Code Review
  11. Advice on Project Submission
  12. SIGCSE Day 2 – Craig Mundie Keynote
  13. Recursion Early, Recursion Late
  14. DigiGirlz Events in March And April
  15. Where are all the high school computer science students
  16. New Resources for the the Faculty Resource Center
  17. It’s in the eyes

February 2009

  1. DreamSpark High School Now Open
  2. AP Java Workshop
  3. Microsoft is looking for people who have taught introductory programming
  4. February 2009 Free eBooks from Microsoft Learning
  5. Same and Different
  6. Silverlight Developer Contest
  7. Students 2 Business
  8. Thursday Links – 2/12/2009
  9. Teaching Office Resources, University Lectures, Things Found on Twitter
  10. Finding the Titanic
  11. Certification 101: Getting Started with Microsoft Certification – It’s Back!
  12. Five Year Blogging Anniversary
  13. Are you certifiable? Are your students?
  14. Exploring Binary
  15. From Java to C# - How, What, and Why – SIGCSE Pre-conference Workshop

January 2009

  1. Useful Web Links for Computer Science Teachers
  2. Java To C# Orange Book
  3. Monday Video Links – 1 26 2009
  4. Internet Safety for the Whole Family
  5. The 2009 Alice Symposium – Call For Papers
  6. Windows 7: To the Beta and Beyond
  7. Bernie Madoff and the Need For Ethics in Computer Science
  8. CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
  9. Ada Lovelace Day
  10. Social Computing/Networking and Reaching Out To Students
  11. Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
  12. Are You Using a Strong Password
  13. Are You Smart Enough To Debug Your Own Code
  14. Project Euler – Math Programming Projects
  15. Another Web Site with Computer Science Teaching Information and Resources
  16. How well do you use search engines?
  17. PostRank Ranks My Top Recent Posts
  18. Coding Up A Coded Message
  19. ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Part of STEM Education
  20. Happy New Year 2009

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December 2008

  1. Tetris for Small Basic
  2. Software Modeling
  3. Students Need Internet-Safety Education
  4. One More Reason I’m Proud of Working For Microsoft
  5. Why Do So Many Programmers Use One Character Index Variables
  6. What Would a 2000 Year Old Computer Look Like?
  7. Free EBooks From Microsoft Learning
  8. Teacher Tech Tuesdays January 2009
  9. Small Basic 0.2 Goes Live
  10. We Need Wireless Power
  11. When Is A Short Circuit a Good Thing?
  12. Are Teachers (Becoming) Obsolete?
  13. Coding For Fun – The Book
  14. School of the Future Summit 2008
  15. Separating TV from Reality
  16. Edublogger Awards for 2008 – Voting Open
  17. Links For Girls, Links for Career Stuff, and Going Green
  18. Cheating, Ethics, Computer Science
  19. Online Tech Communities for Students

November 2008

  1. Top 10 Education People to Follow on Twitter
  2. Thanksgiving Reading
  3. CSTA Leadership Cohort Workshop
  4. Just Add Imagination – Follow Up
  5. Weekly Wrap-up November 21 2008
  6. Nominate Your Tech-Savvy Superintendent
  7. Journal for Computing Teachers (JCT) Fall 2008
  8. Learning Snacks
  9. English as a required language for programmers?
  10. Engineering Links for Girls
  11. LearnScratch.ORG
  12. Certification 101: Getting Started with Microsoft Certification
  13. 2008 Edublogger Award Nominations
  14. Fun With Formulas
  15. Director Office of Educational Technology
  16. MSDN Developer Conference
  17. Free Copy Of OneNote for Teachers
  18. Making CS Relevant, Meaningful, and Engaging
  19. Computer Science for Middle School
  20. The Future Of Programming Languages

October 2008

  1. Interactive Geometry Tool
  2. Teachers Sharing Projects
  3. Tech Talk Tuesday For Teachers
  4. Announcing Small Basic From Microsoft DevLabs
  5. What Does This Code Do?
  6. Talking Points – Information About IT Careers
  7. C# Yellow Book
  8. NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2008
  9. Free E-books on Visual Studio 2008 and MS Robotics Studio
  10. Surface Technology Development
  11. Learning How to Use Silverlight
  12. Kick-off the Northeastern Girls Collaborative Project with a day of networking
  13. Video Games As Educational
  14. Friday Links 101008
  15. In Praise of Small Colleges
  16. Beginner Developer Learning Center
  17. How to Build an Academic XNA Game Development Laboratory
  18. Visual Basic .NET and C# Side By Side
  19. Education is a Journey
  20. Intersection of Computer Science and the Rest of the World
  21. How Central Is Programming to Computer Science

September 2008

  1. Using Maps From Windows Programs
  2. Sample Code For Students
  3. Computer Science Is Everywhere
  4. Microsoft Campus Tour Video
  5. Why Isn’t Science Class Like This?
  6. Fun With Colors
  7. NATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE
  8. Online Programming Contest for Canadian Students
  9. Big Ideas In Computer Science
  10. Line Continuation and Visual Basic – More on C# vs. Visual Basic
  11. Alfred VS Clint: C# versus VB debate
  12. Binary Number Game
  13. NSF and the Birth of the Internet
  14. Programming in Applications
  15. New XNA Curriculum Resources Coming Soon
  16. Multiplying Fractional Numbers
  17. Who Are The Students We Are Missing
  18. Time To Start Thinking About NECC and Other Conferences
  19. Favorite Posts from August 2008

August 2008

  1. Friday Game News
  2. Teacher Favorite Templates: Ms. Stivers for 6th and 7th grade
  3. Educational Uses For Collections of Images
  4. Five Minutes is a Long Time
  5. Reality Check: Laws of Identity
  6. OneNote Videos on TeacherTube
  7. Challenge and Success – Behind the Code with Rebecca Norlander
  8. Fall Is Education’s Spring
  9. Tutorial: 2D Game Development in Silverlight
  10. Teaching the Computer Science Teacher
  11. Microsoft Visual Studio Tips Book Helps Hurricane Katrina Survivors Rebuild Lives
  12. GridWorld RolePlay Online
  13. The Language is NOT the Important Thing
  14. Top Conversations and Links for July 2008
  15. Teaching Casting
  16. Math In Office
  17. Attracting Young Women to Software-Related and Other Engineering Fields: We've Been on The Wrong Track All Along

July 2008

  1. Visual Declarative Designer
  2. Foundations Of Digital Games Conference
  3. Teaching Flowcharts – Have the Computer Draw One
  4. trueSpace7.6 FREE Fully-featured 3D Authoring Package
  5. Examples and Exercises
  6. Looking For More Computer Science Teacher Blogs
  7. Periodic Table of Videos
  8. Goof Off Monday
  9. Turning Consumers into Creators
  10. Popfly Lessons
  11. Terrarium Is Back!
  12. The Four Digit Problem
  13. Recursion See Recursion Again
  14. 2D XNA Game Tutorial
  15. Teacher Game Institute
  16. June 2008 Top Conversations

June 2008

  1. Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium 2008
  2. Computers and the Environment
  3. New Computing Journal from SIGCT
  4. Articles About STEM Education
  5. Computer Labs As Crutch
  6. RampUp – Learn Microsoft Technology Online
  7. A Technology Conference That Bans Technology
  8. Getting Ready for NECC
  9. Women and Minorities in Computer Science
  10. Above & Beyond Awards - Massachusetts
  11. Learn How to Create a Popfly Input Box
  12. Learning How to Make a Peer to Peer Zune Game
  13. A Whole Pile of Programming Competition Questions
  14. ACM Committee on Women in Computing Newsletter
  15. The State of the Education Blogosphere
  16. Dream Build Play 2008
  17. Friday's List of Links
  18. A Group Project – Create an Index File System
  19. Educational Games – A List
  20. May Posts in Review
  21. Win Money for Education Technology

May 2008

  1. Who, from the Past or Present, You'd Like to Teach Your Class for a Day
  2. Tips for Tech Talks and Demos
  3. Who Cares How Fast the Code Is?
  4. Class Programming Project Ideas
  5. Microsoft Education Team Blogs
  6. Short Office Tutorials
  7. New Developments in XNA Resources
  8. Some New Education Technology Blogs
  9. Schools As Communication Free Zones
  10. Links from my talk at Stevens Institute of Technology
  11. World Wide Telescope
  12. Code For Decoding Codes – A Programming Project Discussion
  13. Learning How to Create Games With Popfly
  14. Getting Started Tutorials for Zune Game Development
  15. Search Commands For Office
  16. Where On the Ribbon Is That Office Feature?
  17. XNA For Zune Game Development Now In Beta
  18. K-12 Computer Science Research Project
  19. Popfly Game Creator
  20. Watching Students Grow Up
  21. Top Posts For April
  22. How is a Classroom Like a Pizza Place

April 2008

  1. Best Practices: Designing Mobile Applications
  2. Pitching Your Idea - An Interview About Presentations
  3. RoboChamps – Online, Virtual Robot Competition
  4. Popfly Coin Flip Mashup Tutorial
  5. XNA Links for Teachers (and other learners)
  6. Computer Literacy 3.0
  7. Boston Public Schools Cyber Safety Program
  8. Is It Ever Too Early To Teach Security?
  9. When One Thing Leads To Another
  10. An Expression Web Video Tutorial
  11. Popfly in the Classroom - Trip Report
  12. NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
  13. History of Data Storage
  14. Bootstrapping XNA into High School Computer Science
  15. Getting A Job - The Blizzard Edition
  16. Top Conversations In March
  17. Is There A Future For High School Computer Science?
  18. College Board to discontinue the AP CS AB exam
  19. XNA Game-Themed Assignments
  20. Microsoft Game Studio On Who They Hire

March 2008

  1. The Art of the Demo
  2. Five Questions with Dean Kamen
  3. XML in Schools - Is Now the Time?
  4. Computer History Links
  5. Silverlight, Popfly, and other Software Trailers
  6. Summer Robotics Workshops for Faculty
  7. Bill Gates Calls For More Technology Education
  8. 20% Time For Students
  9. Singularity - A Research Operating System
  10. MIX 08 Sessions OnLine
  11. Build Your Own or Buy Built
  12. So You Want A Job in the Software Industry
  13. Passion Quilt meme
  14. Is Computer Science Enrolment Heading Up?
  15. Big Money for Teachers or for Technology
  16. Keeping Track of Education Bloggers
  17. More on the GDCSE Conference
  18. LiveWeb - insert and view web pages real-time

February 2008

  1. It's Leap Day - Does Your Software Know That?
  2. Join The Conversation - Girls On The Web and Other Topics
  3. When Cods Collide - an XNA Game in 2D
  4. Time To Take Out The Garbage - The Interview
  5. Reality Check: Teaching Students About Intellectual Property Rights
  6. XNA - Games for the Zune
  7. Programming as the New Literacy
  8. DreamSpark - Microsoft Gives Software to Students for Academic Use
  9. Science and Engineering Links
  10. Summer Workshops for Teachers
  11. An Operating System You Can Play With in C#
  12. Build, Craft, Hack, Play, Make!
  13. Expression Web Project For Students
  14. How Rare (Game Dev Company) Recruits Graduates
  15. Alfred On Channel 8
  16. Microsoft Math Demo - Making Your Math Homework Easier
  17. Developing CS1/2 Programming Assignments on the XBOX 360
  18. XNA, a Guitar Hero Guitar and a Game of Your Own
  19. Secure The World
  20. Fun or Serious Learning - Why not both?
  21. Visual Studio Learning Opportunities

January 2008

  1. More Kids Programming Environments
  2. 10 Golden Rules For Teaching Computer Science
  3. Tablet PCs in the K12 Classroom
  4. Pre-Collegiate Faculty Connection Site For CS, Technology and Math Education
  5. High School XNA Game Development Class
  6. Education Test Drive
  7. Is Java the Problem?
  8. A Stopwatch Object in .NET
  9. Very Silly Games (for XNA Game Studio Express 2.0)
  10. How Software Is Built - Updated
  11. Adding the Percent Key to a Calculator Project
  12. How To Teach Your Child to Program
  13. OneNote and Students, Networks and the Paperless School
  14. Getting Started With Silverlight
  15. Update on DigiGirlz Days at Microsoft
  16. A Fine Arts Degree in Computer Programming
  17. Calling All Games
  18. Technology Questions for a Teacher Interview
  19. Friday Interesting Links
  20. A Protractor Compared to a Non-pro Tractor?
  21. Some Interesting and Useful Curriculum Links - Visual Basic, XNA, Other Intro CS
  22. Top December Posts

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December 2007

  1. Projects for a Programming Course
  2. Use Your Wii Controller To Fly Through Virtual Earth
  3. Updates on Beginning Programming Languages
  4. Fixing the AP CS Curriculum
  5. Higher Algebra with Visual Basic
  6. Office 2007 Tips and Tricks
  7. A Simple Check Digit Project
  8. Third Annual Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development in Computer Science Education
  9. Stephen Downes on EduBlogs
  10. XNA Game Studio Express 2.0 Is Out
  11. Popfly Goes to School
  12. Robotics and .NET Fundamentals Series
  13. Tandy Trower on Microsoft and Robotics
  14. Torque X 3D for Education Boot Camp
  15. Inspiring Teachers Inspired Students
  16. Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture
  17. Max Builds a PC
  18. How Do I - Videos
  19. Top November Posts
  20. Blogs By and For High School Computer Science Teachers
  21. MSDN Flash - Newsletter for Students and Professionals

November 2007

  1. Math Add-in for Microsoft Word
  2. Is Computer Science Dying
  3. Advertising Free Wiki Space at WetPaint
  4. WiiMote (Wii game controller) and Microsoft Robotics Studio
  5. Update on Summer 2008 Alice & Media Computation Workshops
  6. Visual Studio Express 2008 is out
  7. Channel 8 at European TechEd
  8. Mass Technology Leadership Council Above and Beyond Awards
  9. XNA Express 2.0 Beta Announced
  10. Will the Kindle Change the World of Textbooks
  11. Carrot, Stick, Attract, Retain, Boys, Girls
  12. Your way, Your play, XNA: Modify a 2D Game in 10 minutes
  13. Creating An Install Project and More
  14. What in the world is a Developer Evangelist?
  15. Computer Technology, Agriculture and Africa
  16. Where Does Computer Science Fit in the Curriculum
  17. The Computer Science Alphabet
  18. Office Offline
  19. XNA Student Projects/Games
  20. Computer Science Snipits from CSTA
  21. My Ideal First Programming Language
  22. 2007 Edublogger Awards
  23. Top Posts From October
  24. Technology For Education

October 2007

  1. New Community Site for Robots in Education
  2. Security V. Ease of Use
  3. Tablet PC Tips on Video
  4. When Programming was Women's Work
  5. HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative
  6. Cyberbullying - Let's All Fight It
  7. DigiGirlz Days are scheduled
  8. Please Help Me Understand Who Is Reading
  9. CS Degree Starting Salaries Are Up
  10. Do Your Students Understand this Cartoon
  11. Reals and Integers, Apples and Oranges
  12. Threat Modeling - How it Works at Microsoft
  13. Phun with Phishing
  14. PowerPoint as a Random Access Device
  15. What Guidance Needs to Know About Computer Science
  16. My Game Builder - An online tool for building simple games
  17. The Five Essential Gaming Methods in XNA Game Studio
  18. When the Second Programming Language is Harder to Learn
  19. How many posts are too many posts
  20. Worldwide Teacher Appreciation Day
  21. How would you improve K-12 Computer Science Education
  22. ACM Student Memberships
  23. Free Book On Building Great Web Sites
  24. Top Links from September

September 2007

  1. Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
  2. Heavyweight or Lightweight User Interfaces
  3. Do We Still Need To Teach HTML
  4. Imagine Cup 2008 is Ramping Up
  5. New Robotics Curriculum from Microsoft Robotics Studio
  6. 2007 FIRST Women in Science and Technology Forum
  7. Road Trip - CCSC Eastern 2007 Conference
  8. Computer Science Education Day 2007 is Coming
  9. High School Internships at Microsoft
  10. Tablet PC Articles available
  11. The Important Things We Are Leaving Out of Computer Science Education
  12. Tablet PCs in Action in the Classroom
  13. Software Engineering Vs. Fun
  14. Department of Learning Prevention
  15. The Risks of Letting Students Use The Network
  16. A Tablet PC School That Works
  17. Debugging Training For Beginners
  18. Excel Training for Teachers (and others)
  19. Problets - Little Learning Problems
  20. What Do You Do the First Day of Class
  21. The Problem with Games in Computer Science Class

August 2007

  1. Are You Reading This Blog From The Source?
  2. Leopard - A Beginner's Programming Language
  3. A Call For Sharing Stories
  4. FREE School Security Resource Kit
  5. Wait Until 30 To Get Your First Real Job
  6. Nifty Assignments
  7. How Software Is Built - Open Source and Closed Source
  8. Visual Basic Power Pack Now with Shape Controls
  9. The Man Behind Photosynth
  10. New XNA Book - Sample Chapters Available
  11. Fonts, computers and road signs
  12. XNA Pong Game Source Available
  13. Visual Studio Tips of the Day from Sara Ford
  14. Clint Rutkas Joins Microsoft
  15. Microsoft Education News
  16. Virtual Tour of Kennedy Space Center
  17. Latest Imagine Cup News on Channel 8
  18. New Developer Kit from Coding 4 Fun
  19. Meet the Imagine Cup Teams on Channel 8
  20. A Visit To Design Camp
  21. Why Did Microsoft Develop A Mashup Tool For Non-programmers

July 2007

  1. Microsoft and Open Source
  2. Turning Our Backs On Tech
  3. Some Useful Links For Teachers
  4. More on Changing the Way We Teach Computer Science
  5. Turn On Channel 8
  6. The 20 Dumbest Words in Software Development
  7. Outreach-in-a-Box: Discovering IT
  8. How to Do Cool Things in Visual Basic
  9. 2007 STEM Summit IV: Accelerating Forward (Massachusetts)
  10. Camp MMU from MathMovesU
  11. Changing the Way We Teach Computer Science
  12. Programming Proverbs 26: Don't be afraid to start over
  13. If You Like Mixing Math and Programming
  14. Programming Proverbs 25 Consider another language
  15. Programming Proverbs 24: Re-read the manual
  16. Programming Proverbs 23: When the program is correct, produce good output
  17. ClubTech - Technology Programs from the Boys and Girls Clubs
  18. Why would you want to teach high school computer science?
  19. Computer Science Research Surveys - Please Help
  20. Weightless Flights of Discovery

June 2007

  1. Programming Proverbs 22: Get the program correct before trying to provide good output
  2. Object Oriented Programming in Visual Basic 2005
  3. Shouldn't Learning Be Fun?
  4. Computer Science Unplugged: CS Activities For K–12 Beyond Programming
  5. CSTA Wants to Hear Your Story
  6. The First Thing Is To Get Them Interested
  7. EduBloggerCon
  8. Programming Proverbs 21: Hand-check the program before running it
  9. Physics Of Game Development
  10. Windows SteadyState replaces Shared Computer Toolkit
  11. Send In The Robots
  12. Ancient Rome - The Computer Generated Tour
  13. Programming Proverbs 20: Provide good documentation
  14. Math Moves U - And a Mission to Mars
  15. Programming Proverbs 19: Prettyprint
  16. Programmer Personality Test
  17. Microsoft Web Experience events in LA & Denver
  18. We are not here to entertain, but to teach.
  19. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Joint Interview
  20. What do teachers make?
  21. The Prime Number Syndrome

May 2007

  1. Educational Uses for Microsoft Surface
  2. Changing the Way We Think About Input Output
  3. Parent's Guide to Windows Vista
  4. Programming Proverbs 18: Use Comments
  5. PopFly Invitations
  6. Does Personality Matter?
  7. Irrelevant Programming Languages
  8. Are you tracking all the new things in web development?
  9. Programming Proverbs 17: Never assume the computer assumes anything
  10. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007
  11. Lost in Translation in the move to Office 2007
  12. XNA In The Classroom
  13. Health Care and Computers
  14. Programming Proverbs 16: Build in debugging techniques
  15. InstaCalc
  16. Fun and Educational Posts on the Visual Basic Team Blog
  17. Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education
  18. Is anyone teaching security in school?
  19. C# From a Java Perspective
  20. FREE Microsoft Certification exam (North American Students and Faculty Only)
  21. More on teaching kids to think - AKA CS concepts for looking things up
  22. Computer science, business grads snag highest average salaries
  23. Variables Late or Variables Early?

April 2007

  1. 24th Annual Connecticut Invention Convention
  2. Girls and Robots
  3. Computer Science and Problem Solving
  4. XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh
  5. More Alice Workshops
  6. Bits & Bytes - Getting the Concepts Down
  7. FIRST Robotics - Helping to Promote Science, Technology and Engineering
  8. Are High Schools to Blame for the Downturn in College Computer Science
  9. Vote For Me
  10. More Teacher Training Opportunities
  11. Programming Proverbs 15: Avoid tricks
  12. Summer Faculty Workshops in .NET
  13. Impressing College Admissions Departments
  14. Programming Proverbs 14: Avoid implementation-dependent features
  15. Do We Really Need Computer Applications Classes?
  16. AP Computer Science v AP Latin and other AP Courses
  17. Girls Will Be Girls

March 2007

  1. Game Camp Canada
  2. Programming Proverbs 13: Do not recompute constants within a loop
  3. Learning things the hard way
  4. AP CS Conversation Follow Up
  5. Programming for Kids Who Cannot Read and Write
  6. Programming Proverbs 12: Leave loop variables alone
  7. Advanced Placement Computer Science - Time for a Big Change?
  8. Take Part in a National Survey of High School Computer Science
  9. Programming Proverbs 11: Use intermediate variables properly
  10. Using the Wii Controller from Windows using C# or VB
  11. Learning to Program in the Wild
  12. Summer Computer Science Experience for HS Students
  13. Creating Vista Gadgets
  14. Programming Proverbs 10: Use good mnemonic names
  15. Make the Future - A Career in Computer Science
  16. Programming Proverb 9: Get the syntax correct now, not later
  17. Programming Proverbs 8: Avoid side effects
  18. Programming Proverbs 7: Avoid unnecessary GOTO's
  19. Summer Workshops for High School Computer Science Teachers
  20. Computer Science Podcasts by Women for Women
  21. Halo 2 On a Planetarium Dome
  22. Upcoming Visit to Stevens (NJ) High School CS Conference
  23. When Text is No Longer Just Text

February 2007

  1. XNA Links
  2. Programming Proverbs 6: Use procedures
  3. Video Game Ideas
  4. Programming Proverbs 5: Construct the program in logical units
  5. IEEE History Center: Oral Histories and Engineering Stories
  6. Learning Network Manager
  7. Programming Proverbs 4: Beware other approaches
  8. People Who Know Nothing About Schools Telling Us How to Fix Them
  9. "Scratch"ing the Programming Itch
  10. Feedburner Address for Subscriptions
  11. Programming Proverbs 3: Use the top-down approach
  12. Bob & Chris' Roadshow
  13. National Engineers Week
  14. How Many Ways Can Your Name be Misspelled
  15. More Game Development Resources
  16. Programming Proverbs 2: Think first, Program later
  17. A Time and A Place for Assembly Language Education
  18. Programming Proverbs 1: Define the problem completely
  19. Hacker High School - Security Awareness for Students
  20. Do you REALLY want a degree in Game Development?
  21. Dream Build Play - XNA Contest is up and running
  22. On the Road Again - Seattle then Austin
  23. The Girl in the Java Class
  24. Survey of Primary and Secondary School Information Technology
  25. Visual Studio or VS Express Editions for the School Computer Lab?

January 2007

  1. Taking the Computer Teacher (and their lab) For Granted
  2. Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcut Posters
  3. Variable Constants and When Things that Never Change Actually Change
  4. Launch Day Opportunity to Win a Computer Lab for Your School
  5. What are you teaching (in your first programming course)?
  6. Deploying Windows Vista (and Office 2007 and Windows XP and Office 2003)
  7. Pocket PC Programming and that is just the beginning
  8. Programming Proverbs
  9. Getting Started with SQL Server Express - Video Training for Beginners
  10. Scratch - Got an itch to teach programming to youngsters?
  11. Engineering Education Reality TV Show
  12. HOPL: an interactive Roster of Programming Languages
  13. Getting Started with XNA Game Creators Club
  14. Picking Programming Languages for High School - Never Ending Story
  15. Creating Your Own K-12 Outreach Program
  16. Geek Speak - From English to Geek to VB
  17. Information Technology Worker Demand Up - Supply Down
  18. Create Robot from iRobot
  19. Programmers to Blame for Hard-to-Use Software
  20. Games in Education - Teaching with Games
  21. Is there an upside to the decline in computer science enrollment?
  22. Digital Literacy Curriculum From Microsoft
  23. Attention Canadian Secondary School Programming Students

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