I'm going to address the educator identity from two perspectives. The first is my own perspective, where I will present what my educator identity means to me and what this has led me to devote time and energy on. My vision is that I want to be part of ...

In January 2016, President Obama unveiled the CS for All initiative. With all the attention and publicity surrounding CS for All and increased support from a variety of corners over the ensuing year, it is easy to become complacent and start believing ...

Fifty years ago, Seymour Papert and colleagues developed Logo as the first programming language for children. Today, millions of children are participating in learn-to-code initiatives, but Papert's dream remains unfulfilled. Papert (who passed away ...

Sources of uncertainty abound. Noisy sensor data. Machine learning methods. Hardware and software failures. The physical world. Human behavior. In the past, computer science handled uncertainty by abstracting it away or avoiding it. In the future, ...

Over the past five years, there has been a major push to develop the computational thinking skills of K-12 students. Tools such as Scratch, Alice, and Kodu have been developed to engage students in learning to program through the creation of ...

There is a natural correspondence between mathematical proofs and computer programs. For instance, a recursive function and its correctness relate directly to inductive proofs in mathematics. However, many undergraduate students feel a disconnect ...

Understanding of computing skills and concepts is no longer viewed as optional, but is knowledge that is required to progress in several fields outside of computer science, even outside STEM fields. Despite the need for this knowledge, non-STEM majors' ...

Computer science education in high school is fundamental for increasing the diversity in computing majors at a university level. However, computer science is not often taught in America before university, and usually, the professionals who teach it are ...

Women are underrepresented in the computer science field. In fact, only 15% of bachelor degrees in pure computer science are awarded to women [1]. The literature reveals various reasons for the underrepresentation of women in computing, including lack ...

Code smells codify poor coding patterns known to degrade software quality. Block-based languages have proven to be a viable educational and end-user programming paradigm with increasing adoption across a broad spectrum of users and domains. This rising ...

In this study, we evaluate a new electronic mobile application, PGA (Programming Grading Assistant). It was designed to make grading paper-based exams easier for graders and professors. Not only does it facilitate grading, but PGA also provides students ...

This poster presents a potential way of promoting student driven computing educational research that may provide an alternate path or option to the traditional faculty-driven computing education research. We propose a unique model of inter-class student ...

Social construction based learning approaches have been employed in computing education, but none of them has actually evaluated the effectiveness of the student reflection mechanism, which plays a key role in the learner's assimilation and ...

While text based languages have been (relatively) straightforward to grade automatically, visual programming languages have been largely left out of the equation. However, as the demand for introductory CS courses has recently grown, so too has the ...

Personalized learning is often referred to a new learning approach by taking individual parameters such as learning preferences, abilities, skills and knowledge into account. In this poster, we present a personalized learning solution for computer ...

Quantitative studies of learning using block-based programming languages in informal environments have relied on identifying the presence or absence of individual visual blocks in learners' projects. Many important programming concepts (e.g., ...

Big data and cloud computing (BDCloud) collectively offer a paradigm shift in the way businesses are now acquiring, using and managing information technology. With the fast growth of this paradigm, we argue that each and every CS and IT students should ...

This poster highlights a sociocultural analysis of a multifaceted K12 outreach program at New Mexico State University, a Hispanic Serving Institution that has had success recruiting local young women into the computer science department and beyond into ...

In attempts to broaden participation in computing, the computer science education community has developed a wide variety of outreach activities to encourage students of different ages to learn computational thinking techniques and to develop an interest ...

The concept of memory management in C programming language is particularly challenging for novice programmers. Consequently, many researchers have proposed program visualization tools to alleviate these difficulties: for example, SeeC is one of the ...