UC Berkeley’s CS 10 The Beauty and Joy of Computing 2009Fa : 16 students (half course) 2010Fa : 90 students (full course) 2011Sp : 120 students (full course) inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/ Grant Winne r Award Winner Passed 1 st round! UC Online Pilot

2 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing 5 Pilots chosen by CollegeBoard, map

3 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing 5 Pilots : Comparison SchoolNameLanguageSizeContact Hrs MSCD Living in a Computing World Lightbot + Scratch 2060 UCSD Fluency w/Information Technology Alice + Excel90050 UWCS PrinciplesProcessing4050 UNCC The Beauty and Joy of Computing BYOB based on Scratch 3045 UCB The Beauty and Joy of Computing BYOB based on Scratch 9098

4 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing  Grady SIGCSE 2007  Need to articulate, emphasize the “wonder and awe” of computing  PBJA 1 SIGCSE 2008  Andrew McGettrick, moderator  Dan Garcia (2 others)  PBJA 2 SIGCSE 2009  Dan Garcia, moderator  4 others shared vision  PBJA 3 SIGCSE 2010  Dan Garcia, moderator  4 others will share vision  Rebooting Computing Summit  “Magic & Beauty of CS” The “Passion, Beauty, Joy, Awe” theme Grady SIGCSE 2007

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6 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing BYOB adds functions, generic lists,  BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks)  developed by Jens Mönig w/design input and documentation from Brian Harvey & Cal  Leverages awesomeness of Scratch (design, simplicity, multi-media, community of users)  Adds just enough so that Scratch can be used in CS0 and CS1 Building a For Loop and calling it. Can you do this in your language?

7 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing Summary: design constraints of CS10  UC Berkeley’s first course for majors (CS61A)expects programming experiencen& recursion  CS10 hits that in week 5, the same time as the old course  What should ugrads know about computing?  History, CS+X, apps that changed the world, hot research  Computing is really fun, de-mystification  Passion, Beauty, Joy & Awe  Take every step to make attractive to women, URM  Let them choose projects and paper relevant to them!  Make all resources free, available (Berkeley way)  Videos, notes, exercises, clickers, book!

8 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing  CS3L (old course)  Programming, programming, programming  Prog Ideas: Recursion, Functions-as-data  Scheme + Same as CS61A – some take CS3L for wrong reason  Never remix code  Maybe graphical, interactive by week 15  1 big Final project  CS10 (new course)  Programming ½ story  Big ideas, HowStuffWorks, history, great applications, social implications too!  Prog Ideas: Recursion, Functions-as-data  Scratch  CS10,61[ABC] each in a different language  Graphical, interactive, musical by week 2  Share and upload code!  Two projects + essay Discussion : Out with CS3L, In with CS10

9 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing  Format (7 hrs/wk * 14 wks)  Two 1-hr lectures / wk  Two 2-hr labs / wk  Pair programming!!  One 1-hr TA discussion / wk  Selected Reading  Taken from great book (“Blown to Bits” by Abelson, Ledeen & Lewis) + articles + videos  Current events play a big part (e.g., IBM’s Watson vs Jeopardy)  Our course notes may make it into an e-textbook Format & Textbooks …

10 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing Peer Instruction in Lecture  Increase real-time learning in lecture, test understanding of concepts vs. details  Improves interactivity greatly!  Ask multiple choice question  1-2 minutes to decide  2 minutes in pairs/triples to reach consensus. Teach others!  2 minute discussion of answers, questions, clarifications

11 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing  Dan Garcia  Lecturer SOE  Luke Segars  TA, Grad Student  Brian Harvey  Lecturer SOE  Colleen Lewis  TA, Grad Student CS10 curriculum leads …many Cal!

12 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing  Ray Pedersen  Albany HS  Eugene Lemon  Ralph Bunche HS  Josh Paley  Gunn HS High School Collaborators

13 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing CS 10 YouTube Testimonial  Justin Barnes (L) & Ian Birnam (R)  Ian: “The class itself was amazing … I had a really fun time … Building our own projects was great … The lectures were really interesting … I never really got into computing but because of this class now I’m really interested in computing and being a possible CS major. … Anyone even remotely interested in computers should take it!”  Justin: “The class is incredibly engaging. The atmosphere is unlike anything I’ve ever taken here. I would recommend it to any friend. I’m a senior, but honestly, if I had taken this class earlier, I would have considered CS as a major.”

14 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing 45% Women, ~60% of top 22 students!

15 / 15 CE21 CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing  CS10 is complete, available for others  Fall 2010 archive  Spring 2011 w/updates  Tiffany UNCC using it for her pilot  Google will soon host the entire thing  We’re working with UC Online project  “Does it scale?” … yes!  “It's a great way to think and expand your mind as well as important and interesting information to know--not to mention that our guest speakers, professors, and department in general here at Berkeley are all outstanding. “  “It is an excellent introduction to the basic concepts of computer science, and the programing language is easy to learn and understand.”  “even as a non-major i would highly recommend it to those who want to learn about computing” Summary