Resources

Links

• 1. Teaching (or learning) HTML and CSS?  See Thimble, an online environment that gives you immediate feedback. [Thanks to Jeff Solin]

  2. Ideas from many area teachers on Curriculum, Assignments and Technology that makes a difference have been posted at       http://bit.ly/CSLifesavers

  3. Use Scratch for visual programming.  Download Scratch here.  See the MIT tutorial (pdf, 14 pages)  and also the reference guide (pdf, 23 pages)

  4. If interested in in using pico-crickets with Scratch, see this web site.

  5. CSunplugged are CS examples that don't require a computer.  See also MathManiacs.org 

  6. Program Android phones using App Inventor.  See Dave Wolber's Course-In-A-Box

  7. Sparkfun has an educational site for embedded electronics.

  8. 3D programming using Alice 

  9. Nand-to-Tetris is a book building a (virtual) computer from a Nand gate all the way up to creating a video game (Tetris) to run on the computer that has been built

Taste of Computing:

   See http://tasteofcomputing.org/ for information and application for ECS teacher training.