Welcome to my blog! I am here as part of the growing community of support for Computer Science Teachers. This blog is a vehicle for relating lessons and experiences that may be helpful to others in teaching CS to high school students. In this post, I will introduce myself and provide some background info.
I teach Computer Science and Astronomy at Pine View School in Sarasota County, Florida. I am in my 32nd year of teaching and 18th year at Pine View. I teach in a lab with 30 Dell computers running Windows XP. I have been an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida in Sarasota and Goshen College in Sarasota. I am currently teaching VB.NET and Advanced Placement Computer Science A and AB as well as Honors Astronomy. The textbook I use for VB.NET is "An Introduction to Programming Using Microsoft Visual BASIC .NET" by Brown and Presley, published by Lawrenceville Press. For APCS I am using "Java Software Solutions for AP Computer Science" by Lewis, Loftus and Cocking and the
Institute of Computer Technology (ICT) curriculum, which I find very helpful.