Our post today is a guest post by Carol L. Fletcher, Ph.D., Director, Expanding Computing Education Pathways (EPIC), The University of Texas Austin. This post originally appeared in Google’s The Keyword and is reprinted with permission. In this post, Dr. Fletcher explains the CAPE framework that she and Dr. Jayce Warner (also at the University […]
SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2021 – See you there!
This week’s post features Monica McGill (CEO, CSEdResearch.org) and the ongoing work at CSEdResearch.org that will be presented at the 2021 SIGCSE Technical Symposium. This year’s SIGCSE Tech Symposium will be quite different than last year’s (it will happen!) and prior years (virtual, rather than in person). But that doesn’t mean we will be less […]
Block-based Programming in Computer Science Classrooms
This week’s post features David Weintrop and his research on block-based programming. He shares three key points his research has discovered so far. The first time I saw Scratch, I thought, “Wow! How clever! Is this the end of missing semi-colons errors!?” It was clear to me how the shape of the blocks, their […]
