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New to CTFs?

UPDATE October 15, there was a miscommunication with the NJDOE and you do have to take the Praxis exam.

Of late, states are trying to codify the credential pathways for computer science teachers.

Our school, like many school, has had no choice but to end of life a significant amount of ChromeBooks.

xkcd source This post began as a response to a teacher who posted in the Unity Teach Community Facebook group that he had been advised by college video game teacher that object oriented programming (OOP) is a key skill needed for success in collegiate vid…

I have been using Capture the Flags (CTFs) in my classrooms since 2013 and been training teachers in their use since 2017.

Picture taken from this presentation My esteemed colleague Shriram Krishnamurthi has written an interesting draft blog post on How Not to Teach Recursion that details some of the common, perhaps misguided, ways computer science teachers teach recursion.

The positive response to my post about “Why I Teach vim” has been extremely appreciated and the most common question I have received is “OK, but how do you teach vim?

The why of why people use vim has been covered fairly extensively, so I thought I would spend a little time explaining why I teach vim to my high school students, even in 2020.

Guest blog post by Jay Michlin, circa 1987 (used with permission).