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Computing Education Must Go Beyond Intuition: The Need For Evidence-Based Practice
Computing educators' practice would dramatically improve if we drew on evidence, rather than intuition.
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Rising Enrollment Might Capsize Retention and Diversity Efforts
Rapid increase of enrollment in CS classes in the US might undermine efforts to improve diversity.
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The Role of Tech Firms in Computing Education
Computing education can't be about jobs. It has to be about schools to reach everyone.
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Is There a 10x Gap Between Best and Average Programmers? And How Did It Get There?
There's not much evidence for a 10x programming productivity gap, but it doesn't matter from an education perspective.
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Anyone Can Learn Programming: Teaching > Genetics
Way more important than the question "Is P==NP?" is the question, "Is teaching greater than genetics?"
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The State of Computing Education in the World: Report on the 2014 ACM Education Council Meeting
The ACM Education Council gets together once a year to share initiatives and results, and promote computing education.
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Recursion and Language at ICER 2014: A Conference Report
Recursion and the unique challenges of programming languages were highlighted at ICER 2014
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If You Want to Teach Kids CS, First Teach the Adults
The pathway to CS in schools starts with teaching the adults.
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Why Counting CS as Science or Math Is Not Considered Harmful
On the path to computational literacy for all, we need computing in schools, under whatever category.
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What It Takes to Be a Successful High School Computer Science Teacher
We should not prepare high school CS teachers the way we prepare software developers. Successful CS teachers use different skills.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Stable Future For Computing Education Requires Collaboration Beyond CS
If you were a superintendent of a big city school district, would you require every school in your district to teach computer science without reliable production...
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