Computer Science · Taos High School · Taos, NM

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Projects, games, and tools built in the classroom and beyond — by Mr. Manuel's Computer Science students at Taos High School or by Mr. Manuel himself. Everything here is designed to make computing tangible, fun, and worth showing off.

Mr. Manuel
Student Showcase

Programs from our early "Code Blitz 1" project, written in Python and then converted to HTML using tools.

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Other Projects
Geography Game
Where's Mr. Manuel?

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 Game
Where To

Another travel-based trivia game. How well do you know your three-letter airport codes?

Play now Block Coding Student Project
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe

(INCOMPLETE) Ultimate tic-tac-toe, programmed in UC-Berkeley's SNAP block programming language.

Play now Chemistry Game Student Project
Mole Whole

A mole is an important quantity in chemistry - you knew that, right?

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About

I'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.

Teaching Philosophy

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.