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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Code School's Git Lesson: Not a Huge Fan
Code School recently put out a free lesson on Git with the tagline "Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?" With the promise of it being so short I decided to give...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
James Paul Gee's Games for Change Keynote
Dr James Paul Gee is one of gaming's best advocates by promoting the fact that good games are good for learning. But what exactly is a 'good' game? What makesGames...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Meet the High School Girls Who Had to Take CS
There's an article from Betabeat making its rounds in the women in tech community: Eight Real Tales of Learning Computer Science as a High School Girl. I found...
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The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra
Real math! Romance! Karate! That's what the back of this unusual math book promises to its readers. Odd as it may seem to teach math with a comic book, The Manga...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My STEMinist Profile
Back in April, I was featured on STEMinist and forgot to mention it here!Find out what my answers were to such questions as 'What inspired you to pursue a career...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
How Important is Gameplay for Educational Games, Anyway?
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From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
How Grad School Prepared Me For Looking After a Baby
Odd as it may seem, there are some things that grad school has done well to prepare me for surviving my maternity leave.Here are a few:I'm used to being home alone...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
When to Use Math Problems for Teaching Programming
Last time I talked about Dan Meyer's work, I pondered how his ideas about perplexing problems applied to educational games. He recently did an Ignite talk that...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Confusion Between Computer Science and Computer Programming
Are we getting mixed up between computer science and computer programming? Are degrees in the former trying to train more people for the latter? Is any of thisJason...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mini-Course 2012: What Made Them Want to Try Computer Science?
Each year, I like to share some of the results from the surveys I give out at the beginning and end of my mini-course (see also info from 2010 and 2011.). They...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lauren Ipsum: Bringing Computer Science to Everyone
Have you ever heard of Userland? It's where you buy things with truly fair coins, deal in algorithms, and try to outwit logicians to gain access to the town ofLauren...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mini-Course 2012: The Games
I have posted the 13 games I received from my mini-course students onto my website. They are in exe format that should work on Windows machines without Game Maker...
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Python vs. Processing as a First Language
When I asked my social networks what they thought was the best language to learn to program with, most said Python. I've always heard great things about this as...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mini-Course 2012: Another Successful Year
Last week marked the fifth year I've run my mini-course, Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls! This was a special year because of our study, and because it...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lauren Ipsum Goes to Seven Lucky Girls
Remember that computer science storybook I mentioned recently? It turns out that the authors of Lauren Ipsum have a Get One, Give One program. I had written to...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Two Examples of Storytelling to Teach Computer Science
Here are two delightful examples of using storytelling to teach computer science. These are traditional stories to be read on their own. They differs from our...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Katie Salen's Take on How Games Can Change Education
Don't shoot the player while they're learning. It's one of the keys to good game design as spoken by a veteran of the field, and adopted by Katie Salen in therecent...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Experiment: Teaching Computer Science With Stories
I've wondered in the past how important interactive storytelling might be in educational games. The potential to use story for more than just engagement seems...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Perplexing Problems in Educational Games
When it comes to presenting math problems in an engaging way, Dan Meyer knows his stuff. From putting pseudocontext in its place to telling a math story with his...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science