1. Milwaukee, WI 2010-03-12 Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 3

2. (2) Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 3  Grady Booch @ SIGCSE 2007  Need to articulate, emphasize the “wonder and awe” of computing  PBJA 1 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  PBJA 2 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. (3) Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making 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  PBJA 3 presenters  What we’ve done / seen  What we should do  How we should do it The topic is timeless…every SIGCSE! Enrollment trends @ Stanford, Enrollment trends @ Stanford 1985- 2009 All CS Intro courses, Their CS1 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 1985-861986-871987-881988-891989-901990-911991-921992-931995-961996-971997-981998-991999-002000-012001-022002-032003-042004-052005-062006-072007-08 2008-09 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. (4) Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 3 CS Education Crisis Perfect Storm CS10k project (get it taught in 10,000 schools by 10,000 teachers by 2015) … New AP Computer Science : Fundamentals

5. (5) Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making 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/  Recursion, graphics, multimedia, animation, games, simulations …  Pair programming, online exams, labs, two of their projects, essay UCB: The Beauty and Joy of Computing Winne r Pilot Fall 2009 students pair programming BYOB w/ BYOB w/ inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/

6. (6) Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making 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 + !  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