Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteBBC News – Viewpoint: Computer code frees us to think in new ways. Very well said. There’s lots here to like and agree with: To date the reasons behind the changes have seemed very skills-based, as if instilling particular skills … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesAnother great bit of info from Mark Guzdial’s blog: Home About Computing Education BlogWhat happens when professionals take on-line CS classes: When Life and Learning Do Not FitJanuary 9, 2013 at 9:46 am Leave a comment The journal article on … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Ironman Draft of the next ACM/IEEE CS Curricula is out. CS2013 Ironman Draft Available « Computing Education Blog. We are happy to announce the availability of the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 – Ironman v0.8 draft. The draft is … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesI learned about Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theory when I fist started studying Education formally in 2003. I found it curious that I had never heard of it in all my years in Computer Science, but that’s a topic … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesNYU using Codeacademy to Teach CS: Who got fired? « Computing Education Blog. I agree with the concerns raised by Mark here. I would add a few additional concerns to this as well. See, I’m not as thrilled by the … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesEven in modern times it is possible for accounts of history to go awry. In this case it doesn’t even have the excuse of being ancient history. Come to think of it, in some ways we are more at … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteStretching your mind: Arguing for multiple programming languages for designers « Computing Education Blog. Well worth repeating. Also, something I’ve been saying for years. This is from jruby 2012 and the keynote by Venkat Subramaniam. Knowing multiple programming languages … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minutevia What do non-programming designers have to know? | Janet H. Murray’s Blog on Inventing the Medium. Exactly!!! What should she know instead? Key concepts of computational architecture like these: Information abstraction: Is data separate from proprietary code and stored … Continue reading