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zamansky

Recently, an article has been making it's rounds in the #CSEd community on having different intro CS classes for different purposes.

My thoughts here:

cestlaz.zamansky.net/posts/pat

cestlaz.zamansky.netHow many roads for intro CS - C’est la ZHow many different intro CS courses should we have? A question that resurfaces periodically. This time due to an article in which C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup posits that different audiences would benefit from a different intro treatment for CS. Perennial CS Blogger and friend Alfred Thompson shared his thoughts on the subject here. The thought is that someone who's going into academic CS needs one thing, a software engineer another, a non CS person who could benefit from some programming within their field something else.
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Peter Drake

What are the "essential" skills that computer science students need? I think they need to understand coding, algorithms, and other parts of CS well enough to ask the right questions (of an LLM, search engine, or other human), and understand and validate the answers. Perhaps a useful frame of mind is: "Eventually you will be supervising people or machines. You need basic technical understanding, critical thinking, and project management skills."

#education#pedagogy#CSEd
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Mike Zamansky

#SIGCSETS2025 Keynote day 2 - what belongs in CS #CSED:

cestlaz.zamansky.net/posts/sig

cestlaz.zamansky.netSIGCSETS 2025 - day 2 keynote - What belongs in CS - C’est la ZThe day 2 keynote was really a treat. After giving out the years SIGCSE awards, instead of getting a standard talk, all three recipients, Jonathan Mwaura, Mitchel Resnick and Manuel Pérez-Quiñones participated in a fireside chat with Dan Garcia. The only letdown was that since Dan was moderating the chat, we also didn't get his views into the mix. With three independent voices, the chat pushed in a few different directions but the theme that spoke most to me was when Pérez Quiñones, commenting on what the future held for CS Education said "I hope the future is less so we can do more.
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gallaugher

#CSed & #STEM folks, have you had luck in creating AI exercises for non-programmers? I'd love to hear what you've found useful to create "something" illustrating benefits/risks of using AI as a tool for those w/limited to no code skills. And please, no straight up "AI hate". I understand & have written about ethical concerns, limitations/risks so 'flame on' is not helpful. AI is here & we need to figure out how to teach students with this in our world. Avoid at all costs is not practical advice.

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Joshua Grochow

I like the phrase "code sense" in Maggie Johnson's Comm. ACM opinion (Mar '24), analogous to "number sense". But then I think she mis-applies the analogy. When kids are first learning numbers and arithmetic, to help them gain number sense, we *do not let them use calculators at all*.

#GenAI#CSEd
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