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Computer Science Teacher
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Computer Science Teacher is a personal blog at blog.acthompson.net about culture and career. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 96 times, most often “HTML and Computer Science”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post arguing that HTML touches computer science topics such as data structures, semantics and abstraction. One commenter cites it as a good entry point into the field.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Computer Science Education Topics
Most-linked posts?
- HTML and Computer Science2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-24
What Hacker News says?
Why isn't it? I'd say as a markup language, it touches on a lot of computer science topics: data structures, semantics, abstraction, etc. Also, I think it's a great entry point that could lead to an interest more "serious" CS topics. http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/03/html-and-computer-science... http://supercomputerscience.blogspot.com/2012/07/html-is-not...
Comment linking /2013/03/html-and-computer-science.html
on “Computer Science by Mail”Submitted We Need More Operating Systems as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSubmitted Predicting the Future of Computing as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware the self-taught know it all as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sexism and Women in Computing as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to Tell If Someone Is Cut Out for Computer Science as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing the K12 CS Curriculum Framework as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Inside Look at Being a Computer Science Teacher as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future Belongs To The Creators as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Movies for Computer Science Students as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What CS Should a Student Know Before High School as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do you understand what cheating in CS class means? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from Two Artificial Intelligences as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are You Teaching Cloud Computing to HS Students? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The More Languages Change The More They Stay The Same as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer science education has an identity problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How is Computer Science Not a 21st Century Skill as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are People Better At (Than Computers) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How many fart apps do we need? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Teach Binary in Computer Science Classes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching Programming with Blocks vs. Teaching with text based languages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Academically rigorous is incomplete without computer science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time to Include More Hardware Devices in Teaching Computer Science? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ethics and Computer Science Education as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Become a Computer Science Teacher in Five Days as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Teach Computer Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cheating in Computer Science Class as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Punch Cards, Comments, and Learning from the Past as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How important is the first programming language really? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You’re Teaching the Wrong Programming Language as a story · 2 points
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