Prior to becoming a teacher, I worked for various small- to mid-size software companies across the US. While there, I had the opportunity to travel the globe to work with international customers.
Where's Mr. Manuel is a GeoGuessr-style guessing game, sourced from my own photos during that time. Study a photo, find the location on Google Maps, paste in the coordinates, and see how close you can get.
Play now Trivia GameAnother travel-based trivia game. How well do you know your three-letter airport codes?
Play now Block Coding Student Project(INCOMPLETE) Ultimate tic-tac-toe, programmed in UC-Berkeley's SNAP block programming language.
Play now Chemistry Game Student ProjectA mole is an important quantity in chemistry - you knew that, right?
Play nowI'm a Computer Science teacher at Taos High School in Taos, New Mexico. I teach a variety of computer science courses ranging from introductory cyber literacy and digital citizenship to dual credit programming classes at UNM/Taos. I draw on my experiences as a former programmer, team lead, and software executive, and we focus on building things that are actually useful — or at least genuinely fun.
This site is a home for projects that come out of that work: games built with students, tools developed for the classroom, and experiments that started as a lesson and turned into something worth sharing.
Taos is a small town with a remarkable creative energy, and the students here bring that same spirit to their code. A lot of what lives on this site started with a classroom conversation and ended up somewhere interesting.
The best way to learn to code is to build something you care about. Every project on this site started that way — with a question, a game idea, or a problem worth solving.
I try to keep things project-based, iterative, and real. Students ship working code, get feedback, and improve it. The goal isn't just to learn syntax — it's to think like a programmer.