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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
December Adventure–Write some Code Everyday
Eugene Wallingford let me in on A December Adventure From the website “The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every day in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code and Corporate Involvement in CS Education
An interesting article was shared on Facebook recently -Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial? Take a look at it. It may make...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Hexapawn
A presenter at the recent New England CSTA New England Conference mentioned the game Hexapawn. Hexapawn is hardly new. It was first introduced in 1962. I first...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interested in Industry Visitors to Your CS Class?
I get interesting messages from all sorts of places. Recently, I received this message on LinkedIn. I love the idea of bringing industry professionals in to talk...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Online Programming Environments are Poor Preparation
Got your attention didn’t I? More and more teachers are using online coding environments to teach computer science. I used one myself to teach Advanced Placement...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does AI Mean The End Of Teaching Programming
The tl;dr of it is no. At least not yet. As more and more people use artificial intelligent agents to help write code we’re learning that AI is not quite all there...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson