Did you know about this 2005 CACM article oddly titled “Is the Thrill Gone?” that appeared barely months before Wing’s seminal ‘Computational Thinking’ piece in 2006? With the subtext “Computer science is nothing less than a new way of thinking; explaining it to the wider world is critical to the…
I read Judy Robertson’s CACM article with interest. It advocates for teaching kids more about how computers work including how programs and variables work, and also stuff like the internet and WiFi. The article raised some good points. I have had similar experiences in the context of introducing middle school…
January 30, 2016 was a watershed moment in the nation’s quest to create a citizenry that is prepared to compete and innovate in a world increasingly steered by computing. President Obama launched the bold CSForAll initiative, and in doing so brought to fruition almost a decade long effort to bring…
