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PCAS Expansion, Growth, Research, and SIGCSE 2024 Presentations

The ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium is March 20-23 in Portland (see website here). I rarely blog these days, but the SIGCSE TS is a reminder to update y’all with what’s going on in the College of Literature, Science, & the Arts (LSA) Program in Computing...
What Humanities Scholars Want Students To Know About the Internet: Alternative Paths for Alternative Endpoints

After we got the go-ahead to start developing PCAS (see an update on PCAS here), I had meetings with a wide range of liberal arts and sciences faculty. I’d ask faculty how they used computing in their work and what they wanted their students to know...
A Scaffolded Approach into Programming for Arts and Humanities Majors: ITiCSE 2023 Tips and Techniques Papers

I am presenting two “Tips and Techniques” papers at the ITiCSE 2023 conference in Turku, Finland on Tuesday July 11th. The papers are presenting the same scaffolded sequence of programming languages and activities, just in two different contexts. The...
Participatory Design to Set Standards for PCAS Courses

My main activity for the last year has been building two new courses for our new Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS), which I’ve blogged about recently here (with video of a talk about PCAS) and here where I described our launch. Here...
Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects (May 2023 Communications of the ACM): About Teaspoon Languages

In May, my students and I published a paper in Communications of the ACM, “Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects” (see link here) about our work with teaspoon languages. It’s a short Viewpoint, but we were able to squeeze into our 18...

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Apple removes Scratch from iPad/iPhone/iTouch | Computing Education Blog

A real bummer -- Apple removed Scratch from the iTunes store, so it's no longer available for iPad, iPhone, or iTouch. Why? Discussion on the Scratch forums suggests that it's because Apple wants to...

About Computing Education Blog | Computing Education Blog

Computing Education Research is about how people come to understanding computing, and how we can facilitate that understanding. I am Mark Guzdial, a professor in the School of Interactive Computing a...