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This post is inspired in part based on a question (Facebook account and membership to the group required) that came up on the AP Computer Science A Teachers Facebook group (please consider joining if you teach Java or AP CS A). For those without Facebook access, the question amounts to “What does each part ofContinue reading “public static void whaaaat?”

One of the many advantages of running your own command line based Linux server is that you can easily set up web space for both you and your students. I like to take advantage of this to really bring home a point about phishing attacks and being ever vigilant. The purpose of this exercise isContinue reading “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? – Who Will Guard the Guards Themselves”

How it all began…. It must have been 2008. A year before that, I had been given the news that 50% of my music teaching load was being cut due to the economic crisis. My assistant principal offered me a drafting class. I said I can’t draw stick figures. What can you do? Well, IContinue reading “Hello World or Thank You Alfred Thompson”