This new AP Computing Course is very exciting. As a member of the commission working on this new AP course, I can say that I really like the direction the course is going and expect the end result to be great.
I am hopeful this course will change the face of Computer Science education at the high school level.
Tag Archives: Teaching Tools
Kodu and SmallBasic
Kodu – Visual Programming Environment
I had a chance to see this live in the spring and it was very impressive.
SmallBasic – an update of a classic
I have this on my laptop and my 8 year old really likes making the turtle do tricks.
He also really enjoys writing code in Scratch and Alice.
I am not on the Microsoft payroll – it just happened that I thought to post about two MS products today.
CS News – Alice 3.0 / Online Problems
Alice 3.0 News
My campus is beta testing Alice 3.0 and it is very impressive.
We use Alice 3.0 to do lots of things, but really like using it to teach searching algorithms.
Looking for some problems to solve?
Python Challenge – if you want to write some code in Python to see if you are a hot shot Python programmer!
Project Euler – some really cool math problems
USACO Training Gateway – an online contest problem training site
Some Cool Teaching Tools
I have listed some of these before –
More Cool Articles / Sites
If you run across some really cool CS articles are related sites, send me an email and I will check them out and quite possibly post a link in the blog.