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Leonardo da Vinci's Robot Lion
We are celebrating the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death with a major exhibition of the Renaissance painter's works…
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CS Faculty Cause Inequality
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.
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Perception Matters
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...
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Is C All There Is?
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...
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How We Make Decisions About CS1
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...
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Correction and Updates on Role of APCS in Undergraduate Enrollment
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...
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Nudging Computing Education
The nudges of libertarian paternalism have insights for computing education.
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The Impact of APCS on Undergraduate CS Enrollment
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...
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Media Computation: For Creativity and Surprises
The Media Computation approach to introductory computing is mostly used for creative expression, but it can also lead to some surprises.
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Only the Developed World Lacks Women in Computing
The developing world has lots of women in computing. Great talks at this week's NCWIT meeting explain why the difference.
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'There's an App For That,' and You Could Write It
The challenge of computing education today is convincing students that not every application is done and available for download.
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The Great Electronic Brain and the Rhetoric of Recruitment
We rarely talk about computers as "Electronic Brains" or "Thinking Machines." That seems presumptuous or audacious today. Maybe that's exactly what we need to...
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The Importance of Programming in Introductory Computing Courses
Why not teach introductory courses without programming? Here are three good reasons to use programming to introduce computing.
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