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Milwaukee, WI
2010-03-12
Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy,
and AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 3
GAILCHAPMAN
CSTA
DAN GARCIA
UC Berkeley MAGGIE
JOHNSONGoogle
ORITHAZZANTECHNION
LEIGH ANNSUDOL
CMU
(2)Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and
AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 3
Grady Booch @ SIGCSE 2007 Need to articulate,
emphasize the “wonder and awe” of computing
PBJA1 session @ SIGCSE 2008 Crisis in computing, what can
help in K-12, working w/student groups
Rebooting Computing Summit Subtitle: “Magic & Beauty of
CS” Working group: K-8
FUNdamentals
PBJA2 session @ SIGCSE 2009 Crisis update, Listening to
our students, Relevant projects to them
Ensemble Computing Portal Let’s continue the discussion!
computingportal.org/pbja
The “Passion, Beauty, Joy, Awe” movement
Grady Booch @ SIGCSE 2007
(3)Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and
AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 3
Original need driven by computing crisis Numbers show
upswing
We should ALWAYS be looking to share
PBJA asking students
what they want to learn & what inspires them
PBJA3 presenters What we’ve done /
seen What we should do How we should do it
The topic is timeless…every SIGCSE! Enrollment trends @ Stanford
1985-2009All CS Intro courses, Their CS1
0
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1985-86
1986-87
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2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
All CS intro courses
CS106A (our CS1)
1993-94
1994-95
“You get to express your artistic and creative side
while still being in a technical field. That has
always been the allure for me.”
Doug Densmore, UCB Grad
ACM’s Faces of Computing
(4)Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and
AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 3
CS Education Crisis Perfect Storm
CS10k project(get it taught in 10,000 schools by10,000 teachers by 2015)
…New AP Computer Science :
Fundamentals
(5)Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and
AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 3
Beauty, Joy of Big Ideas History, limits, future, and
social implications of computing
Apps that changed the world
CS + X, simulations “How it works” sessions Current events in
computing Abstraction, algorithms,
data, programming paradigms, concurrency, networking, AI, …
Beauty, Joy of Programming UC Berkeley’s BYOB Scratch
w/l Recursion, graphics,
multimedia, animation, games, simulations …
Pair programming, online exams, labs, two of their projects, essay
UCB: The Beauty and Joy of Computing
Winner
Winner
Pilot
Fall 2009 students pair programming
BYOB w/l
inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/
(6)Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and
AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 3
Let’s all foster, find and share PBJA and bring it into our classrooms Interview your
students Rethink your CS0,
CS1 Start w/BYOB Scratch
+ l!
Get involved in K-12! Start a CSTA chapter Help the CS10k / AP
teams
Let’s continue the discussion online!
“And in Conclusion…”
computingportal.org/pbja