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Milwaukee, WI 2010-03-12 Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 3. DAN GARCIA UC Berkeley. Leigh ann sudol CMU. Orit hazzan TECHNION. Maggie johnson Google. Gail chapman CSTA. The “Passion, Beauty, Joy, Awe” movement. Grady Booch @ SIGCSE 2007 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Milwaukee, WI2010-03-12
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
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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