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(AP)CS Principles

www.csprinciples.org

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CS Principles, Pilots

Owen AstrachanJody Paul, Metropolitan State Coolege, DenverBeth Simon, UC San DiegoDan Garcia, UC BerkeleyLarry Snyder, University of WashingtonTiffany Barnes, U. North Carolina, Charlotte

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Who?

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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 HaynieCSPrinciples, Sigcse 2011 404/20/23

• 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)

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Rothko to Seurat

• Designing the CS Principles curriculum is not as easy as the last course you designed …

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7 Big Ideas7 Big Ideas

6 CT Practices6 CT Practices

LOs & EvidenceLOs & Evidence

Create Course

Create Course

Local ContextLocal Context

High School

Compatibility

High School

Compatibility

TextbookTextbook

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Programming Language

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Lab

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WksTotal Conta

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MSCD

Scratch, HTML/CSS

4 0 0 1560

UC B BYOB Scratch 2 4 1 14 98

UC SD

Alice, Excel 3 2 0 1050

UNC C

Scratch, BYOB 3 0 0 1545

U WProcessing, XML, …

3 2 0 1050

How does the course fit?

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Berkeley CHANGEd course, Feeds into CS 1*

UCSD CHANGEd, required of some

U. Washington New course, not required, QSR

UNC Charlotte New course, not required

Metropolitan/Denver New course, not required

Pilot Demographics

Berkeley 76 total, 34 women, 15 under

UCSD 570, >70% first year, >60% women

U. Washington 22, 11 women, 6 under

UNC Charlotte 25, 20 men, 6 underrepresented

Metropolitan/Denver 63% women, 26% hispanic 10% baa(55%, 13%, 6%)

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Pilot Recruitment Efforts

Berkeley Talks, ads, demos, website, email

UCSD Orientation, demos

U. Washington Advising, ads, campus groups

UNC Charlotte Advising, flyers, ask friends

Metropolitan/Denver Fliers, brochures, targeted email

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