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Students As Computer Science Ambassadors
Our final year course where students get course credit for teaching computer science in high schools has benefits for kids, teachers and students alike.
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The Danger of Requiring Computer Science in K-12 Schools
We are not ready to make CS a requirement for all children in the U.S., even if that's where we want to be one day.
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The Benefits of Working on Research As An Undergraduate Student
This article presents three practical benefits of working on research as an undergraduate student.
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Exciting Follow-up With an ACM-W Scholarship Recipient
It's exciting to see how these scholarships can shape careers.
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Programming Languages Are the Most Powerful, and Least Usable and Learnable User Interfaces
Programming languages are amazing, but too hard to use and learn.
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Grant Proposal Time and the Unexpected Benefits of CSTA Chapters
This piece explores the growing relationship between unversity computer science faculty and CSTA's regional chapters and highlights some unexpected mutual benefits...
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Reflections on Using AppInventor to Teach First-Year Programming
This post reflects on my experiences of using AppInventor to teach Android development to first-year university computer science students.
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Media Coverage of Analysis of AP CS 2013 Exam Results
Barbara Ericson does an annual analysis of AP CS exam results. Her 2013 analysis attracted significant media attention.
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We May Be 100 Years Behind in Making Computing Education Accessible to All
So when should we be able to provide computing education to everyone in the US? Using physics and mathematics as examples, we may be 100 years behind.
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CSEd Week 2013 Was Amazing!
The "Hour of Code" was a hit, with over 15 million people trying out programming.
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Hour of Code: Observations from a Middle School Classroom
I volunteered at a middle school for the Hour of Code and helped students learn basic programming. Here are some observations that are relevant to CS education.
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Spanning the Chasm of the K–12 and Post-Secondary Relationship
This article describes the sometimes fraught relationship between K–12 computer science teachers and university computer science faculty. It decribes how CSTA...
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A Summit on Computing Education in South Carolina
A summit of legislators, business leaders, officials from the Department of Education, and teachers convenes in South Carolina to advance computing education in...
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Building the HPC Community, Shaping Early Careers
The SC conference series provides a valuable opportunity each year to shape early research careers in an event where the whole community meets to exchange news,...
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Computing Does Not Support Its Infrastructure
All large, multinational companies that depend on their intellectual prowess are able to avoid most taxation. Two factors enable the trend: first intellectual property...
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Results From the First-Year Course MOOCs: Not There Yet
The empirical results of first-year MOOCs are in. We're not there yet in terms of retention, learning, or access.
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Heidelberg Laureate Forum: Research At the Interface Between Disciplines
The importance of interdisciplinary work, particularly in applying mathematics and computer science to biology, was a topic emphasized throughout the Heidelberg...
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Trip Report on Dagstuhl Seminar on Live Coding
Live coding is programming performance with generates music for an audience, often in a collaborative setting. It's a jam session on laptops with rich research...
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Heidelberg Laureate Forum: Who Invented the Computer?
Comments after the first lecture by Prof. Raj Reddy at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
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