Ciphersoup
ciphersoup.bsky.social
Ciphersoup
@ciphersoup.bsky.social
K12 computing educator based in the US
Students have been blowing me away with their work this year. The creativity and individual expression are amazing. It's been great seeing their excitement when sharing their creations.

#Edusky #CSed #TeamCompSci
September 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Best. Job. Ever.

(gaming controllers kids designed for the games they're coding)

#EduSky #TeamCompSci #CSed
August 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Thank you to all the participants in the Cybersecurity #Unplugged workshop at #CSTA25, and congrats to everyone for freeing their ducks with excellent code cracking skills.

#CSed #TeamCompSci #releasethequacken

All this thanks to the great staff and volunteers at @csteachersorg.bsky.social!
July 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This paper doesn't appear to say that. It appears to say that if you want to map an operation or do an aggregate operation, it's easier to have native functionality to do that rather than to construct it with a loop. I doubt most K5 students would easily grasp below without explicit traversal.
April 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I read the paper, and I don't see them pushing up against computer science. It says that they felt marginalized by mainstream computing, which to me bolsters the case for fostering more of a sense of belonging. I saw 6.1-3 as them trying to make CS more inclusive. Can you elaborate?
March 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Your paper is cited a paragraph about belonging in the report that Guzdial quotes from:
reimaginingcs.org/wp-content/u...
March 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This is from the AP CS Principles framework, which specifies a national curriculum that allows for university credit across the country.
January 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
CSTA Level 2 (KS3) mentions both but doesn't have quite that level of specificity, and Level 3A (KS4) only mentions procedures. The standards don't mention 'subprograms' or 'subroutines' at all. I'm not saying we shouldn't differentiate, but our available resources in the US don't.
January 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thank you to @urbanartsorg.bsky.social for a great wrap up to #CSEdWeek with their virtual game design workshop. It was great hearing from professionals from Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, as well as the awesome Urban Arts team. #games4ed
December 13, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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