I participated at the first SIGCSE Virtual Conference last December. I was on a panel “Assessments for Non-CS Major Computing Classes” (see the ACM DL paper here). The panelists were excellent. I w…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I am sorry to miss the SIGCSE 2025 Technical Symposium this week. I so want to hear Mitchel Resnick’s keynote for his Outstanding Contribution award, and to cheer on Manuel Pérez-Quiñones for his Distinguished Service award. There’s going to be a great session on “Ethics, Power, and Persistence” with papers from ACM TOCE, including a […]| Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take
Here’s why I decided to work on yet-another implementation of a Python API that we first developed in 2001, how to get the implementation, and how it’s different. Why we needed Python MediaComp in the browser In 2002, we created a course at Georgia Tech called “Introduction to Media Computation.” Georgia Tech required all liberal […]| Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take
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 th…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
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 …| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take