(AP)CS Principles CSPrinciples, Sigcse /14/2015
CS Principles, Pilots Owen Astrachan Jody Paul, Metropolitan State Coolege, Denver Beth Simon, UC San Diego Dan Garcia, UC Berkeley Larry Snyder, University of Washington Tiffany Barnes, U. North Carolina, Charlotte 11/14/2015CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse 20112
Who? CSPrinciples, Sigcse /14/2015
Who? Don Allen Christine Alvarado Owen Astrachan Stacey Armstrong Tiffany Barnes Amy Briggs Charmaine Bentley Mark Guzdial Rich Kick Jody Paul Chris Stephenson Duane Bailey Gail Chapman Tom Cortina Stephen Edwards Dan Garcia Joanna Goode Susanne Hambrusch Michelle Hutton Deepak Kumar Jim Kurose Andrea Lawrence Richard Pattis Eric Roberts Katie Siek Beth Simon Larry Snyder Lynn Stein Fran Trees Lien Diaz Cameron Wilson Jan Cuny Kathy Haynie CSPrinciples, Sigcse /14/2015
The Task … The Commission and the Advisory Committee have specified the content in broad strokes The Pilot’s task is to express it in the fine detail of a college class … (Rothko to Seurat) 11/14/2015© 2010 Larry Snyder, CSE5 Rothko to Seurat
The Constraints Designing the CS Principles curriculum is not as easy as the last course you designed … 11/14/2015© 2010 Larry Snyder, CSE6 7 Big Ideas 6 CT Practices LOs & Evidence Create Course Local Context High School Compatibility Textbook
Cross-Campus Comparison II 11/14/2015© 2010 Larry Snyder, CSE7 Programming Language LecLabDisWks Total Contact MSCDScratch, HTML/CSS UC BBYOB Scratch UC SDAlice, Excel UNC CScratch, BYOB U WProcessing, XML, …
How does the course fit? 11/14/2015CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse BerkeleyCHANGEd course, Feeds into CS 1* UCSDCHANGEd, required of some U. WashingtonNew course, not required, QSR UNC CharlotteNew course, not required Metropolitan/DenverNew course, not required
Pilot Demographics Berkeley76 total, 34 women, 15 under UCSD570, >70% first year, >60% women U. Washington22, 11 women, 6 under UNC Charlotte25, 20 men, 6 underrepresented Metropolitan/Denver63% women, 26% hispanic 10% baa (55%, 13%, 6%) 11/14/2015CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse 20119
Pilot Recruitment Efforts BerkeleyTalks, ads, demos, website, UCSDOrientation, demos U. WashingtonAdvising, ads, campus groups UNC CharlotteAdvising, flyers, ask friends Metropolitan/DenverFliers, brochures, targeted 11/14/2015CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse
11/14/2015CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse