Our august 2014 Issue
Computer Science Curriculum Resources
Created by teachers, administrators, and industry professionals, the most comprehensive, and inclusive, computer science curriculum for the United…
Music from Garbage
Remember shop class in high school? Creating small objects from scrap wood to learn how to use different…
The Panopticon
Federal, state, and local spying on innocent people is a great example of how people who don’t know…
August 2014 News Wire
Ohio State’s Marching Band Embraces the iPad http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-05/ohio-states-marching-band-uses-ipad-for-sheet-music-steps Why Coders Are Going Nuts Over Apple's New Programming Language…
Fat or Muscle: Which Keeps You Warmer?
The other day I was chatting with a friend who, despite the heat outdoors, had a coat on…
Programming Languages for Education
Which programming language should you learn or teach in class? There are hundreds of choices. If you are…
3D Software Tools and Resources
There are several software tools anyone can use to build objects, buildings, planes, trains, or whatever. The only…
Regular Expressions
This Code Snippets section of the magazine explains parts of programming languages common across most or all languages.…
Principle of Least Astonishment
Which of these is a button on a web page? Two Buttons Most people would say B is…
Krissy Venosdale and Skype in the classroom
Krissy Venosdale describes herself as, “a forever learning, connected collaborating, Sharpie collecting, poster making, eternal optimist. I still…
SketchUp for Beginners
There are lots objects and buildings you can import into your sketch, or you create your own. SketchUp…
The Traveling Salesman Problem
Computer science and mathematics have a wonderful problem called the Traveling Salesman Problem or TSP. There are variants,…
LOGO
In the 1960s, Seymour Papert, a mathematician who had worked with Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, moved to…