The end of the year brings upon us the celebrations that come with the holidays. This year, we have extra reason to celebrate with an added holiday. The week of December 7, 2009 has been declared as Computer Science Education Week. Celebrations for...

Reading John Harrison's blog of November 3 got me thinking about what I am trying to teach my students in my third-semester (university) course about the development of large software systems. They seem to have a good handle on the nuts and bolts of...

Just what is computer science? Is it a science course? Is it a math course? Is it a business course? These questions pop up more frequently now that states are requiring four years of science and math. In Texas, the AP CS A course counts as a...

In the March 2006 issue of the Communications of the ACM, Jeannette Wing generated a significant response with her article on Computational Thinking. One of the significant impacts of this article was placing the phrase "Computational Thinking" into...

Can you remember life without email and texting? BITD B4 the EMSG, we talked, in person or on the phone, and wrote in a language that was readable. Now, most of our communication is done via email and texting. This sometimes includes a new...