(AP)CS Principles

www.csprinciples.org

CSPrinciples, Sigcse 2011 104/20/23

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

04/20/23CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse 2011 2

Who?

CSPrinciples, Sigcse 2011 304/20/23

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)

04/20/23© 2010 Larry Snyder, CSE 5

Rothko to Seurat

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

04/20/23© 2010 Larry Snyder, CSE 6

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

04/20/23© 2010 Larry Snyder, CSE 7

Programming Language

Lec

Lab

Dis

WksTotal Conta

ct

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?

04/20/23CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse 2011 8

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%)

04/20/23CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse 2011 9

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

04/20/23CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse 2011 10

04/20/23CSPrinciples Pilots Sigcse 2011 11