The ACM Education Board visited Qatar at the beginning of May. At Qatar University, 70% of the students in CS are women, and those we met are hungry to produce...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | May 19, 2010 at 01:40 PM
Computer science is becoming too broad to fit under the tyranny of a single bachelors degree. Cleaving the BS in CS into new degrees is a natural growth path.Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | April 8, 2010 at 09:10 AM
The SIGCSE 2010 keynotes by Sally Fincher and Carl Weiman suggest how we connect research to changing practice. It's complicated! It's enculturation. Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | April 8, 2010 at 09:12 AM
Open source provides a large collection of valuable software to the world. There may be downsides to open source for computing education, especially for the goal...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | February 6, 2010 at 04:40 PM
The latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report is out, and it says that computing is booming! So why are there so many IT workers complaining about being laid...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | January 19, 2010 at 05:08 PM
Progress on the new Advanced Placement exam in Computer Science is progressing, but it's still early to see how it's going to end up and whether it will achieve...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | December 17, 2009 at 09:52 AM
Georgia again counts the Advanced Placement test in Computer Science towards high school grauation requirements. The story highlights the challenges of making...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | November 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM
The second day of Informatics Education IV in Freiburg, Germany, focused on accreditation, expanding enrollments, student engagement, parellelism, and interdisciplinarity...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | November 6, 2009 at 01:48 PM
Informatics Education Europe, a workshop sponsored by ACM, BCS, Intel, and Microsoft, is focusing on improving computing education across Europe.
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | November 5, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Georgia used to count AP CS as a fourth "science" class towards high school graduation. As of 1 October 2009, that is no longer true.
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | October 29, 2009 at 02:06 PM
Research in educational psychology in the last 20 years calls into question our most common teaching methods in introductory courses: Teaching programming by having...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | October 8, 2009 at 04:56 PM
How do we bootstrap research in computing education? Existing education research programs only fund the best research, with the best measurement instruments and...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | September 22, 2009 at 10:09 AM
A series of recent articles suggests that higher education in the United States is actually causing inequality, and that CS faculty play a role in that.Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | September 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM
The rapid pace of technology means that there are solutions that worked well, but are now abandoned -- not always for technical reasons. Perceptions about a technology...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | August 24, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Increasingly, CS departments are moving to a programming language monoculture--it's C or C-derived languages throughout the curriculum. What are we losing out...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | August 18, 2009 at 02:54 PM
How do we decide what to put in our introductory courses, and for who, and using what language? My experience suggests that we make our decisions more on the basis...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | August 8, 2009 at 10:17 AM
The number of students taking the Advanced Placement Exam in Computer Science (APCS) is distressingly low. My earlier data were wrong, but even with these data...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | July 21, 2009 at 11:39 AM
The critics and detractors of the Advanced Placement exam in Computer Science (APCS) are many. But the flaws of APCS most likely have no effect on undergraduate...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | June 4, 2009 at 09:22 AM
The Media Computation approach to introductory computing is mostly used for creative expression, but it can also lead to some surprises.Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | May 14, 2009 at 09:24 AM