"Innovative Approaches to First Courses in Computing” Workshop at UMass Amherst

 

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This workshop will be held at UMass Amherst in the Computer Science building on July 10 & 11 and will present Innovative Approaches to First Courses in Computing. The goal of the workshop is to present five different approaches to introducing computing, all approaches that focus on a particular context and have been successful at attracting and retaining women and minority students.

The five approaches are:
* Introduction to computing and programming via media computation in Python
* Introduction to computing and programming via media computation in Java
* Introduction to computing via robotics in Python
* Introduction to computing via engineering in MATLAB
* Introduction to data structures via media computation in Java.

We may be able to support housing, but please conact us as there are limited funds.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 9:00 AM
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Friday, July 11, 2008 at 4:00 PM (ET)

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UMass Amherst, Computer Science Building
Colloquium Room
140 Governors Dr
Amherst, MA 01003

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Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He was the Director of Undergraduate Programs (including the BS in Computer Science, BS in Computational Media, and Minor in Computer Science) until October 2007. Mark is a member of the GVU Center, the Cognitive Science program, and the EduTech Institute. He received his Ph.D. in education and computer science (a joint degree) at the University of Michigan in 1993, where he developed Emile, an environment for high school science learners programming multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations. He was the original developer of the CoWeb (or Swiki), which is now one of the most widely used Wiki engines in Universities around the world. He is the inventor of the Media Computation approach to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract and retain students. He is currently vice-chair of the ACM Education Board.

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