Mark Guzdial

People of ACM - Brian Harvey Brian Harvey is Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. His interests include computer science education, curricula, programming languages, and visual languages. Harve...

Nice to read this interview with Brian Harvey. www.acm.org/articles/peo...

Program - ICER 2025 The 21st ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research will take place from Sun 3 to Wed 6 August 2025 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It will be a hybrid conference: you m...

ICER 2025 program is now available, feat. 31 papers: icer2025.acm.org/program/prog... Registration is open for in-person or virtual attendance.

Computer and Information Science and Engineering : Future Computing Research (Future CoRe)

The new CISE Core Programs solicitation (
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...)
now includes support for Computing Education Research
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Masters thesis that did a meta-review of studies. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

I should pin this to the top of my profile (if it's possible to do that on Bluesky): Nothing I say in a microblog post is a claim to be gospel truth.

I chose the link for accessibility. A better and peer reviewed is here but paywalled. There is longitudinal evidence. digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/information-...

Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of the Impact of Pre-College Computing Activities on Choices of Major | ACM Transactions on Computing Education A lack of diversity in the computing field has existed for several decades, and although female participation in computing remains low, outreach programs attempting to address the situation are now qu...

We also have evidence that an Hour can be enough to frighten off students and convince them to never try CS again. So an Hour is enough time to do significant harm, too. doi.org/10.1145/2920...

New Study Finds Hour of Code Makes Big Difference for Students, Particularly Girls The study by Code.org was based on surveys of students before and after participating in Hour of Code last December.

Agreed -- An Hour isn't enough to create a notation for thought. However, an Hour can be enough time to shift attitudes, and a change in attitude can inspire further learning. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Don't replace thought with AI. Push back against the Tech Industry taking away your right to use and think with Code.

For the reasons liberal arts and sciences majors should learn to program, AI’s not really that big a deal “It’s the end of Computer Programming as We Know It” wrote Farad Manjoo in the NYTimes last June. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said earlier this year that programming is no longer important: “It is…

Just heard about the rebrand of Hour of Code as Hour of AI.

Code isn't just an intermediate step between intentions and application. It's a notation for thought, learning, and expression. For scientists, artists, and scholars, code is powerful. computinged.wordpress.com/2024/08/05/a...

When else am I gonna get a chance to do one of these?
(I'm tenured)

I decided to ask GPT-4o. The reply is telling.
Be sure to brush up on your music theory!

Has anybody seen any studies or analyses yet:
How much knowledge of programming is needed to vibe code effectively? >>

The question critics of explicit teaching cannot answer Try it. Ask them.

I disagree with the title of this post. I've heard good explanations for when to use inquiry and when to be explicit from constructionists.

But, I love the definition of explicit teaching here. CS classes should use more of this fillingthepail.substack.com/p/the-questi...

"By claiming that they can contribute to software engineering, the soft scientists make themselves even more ridiculous. (Not less dangerous, alas!) In spite of its name, software engineering requires (cruelly) hard science for its support."

I wanted to find where Dijkstra said this from @felienne.bsky.social's talk. It's in his "Truths" essay. www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655.... The quote is slightly different, but same (obnoxious) meaning. >>

Fantastic resource -- highly recommended.

It isn’t always cheating: Sometimes, artificial intelligence offers a learning lifeline | umsi UMSI researchers are reimagining AI as an education partner.

It isn’t always cheating: Sometimes, artificial intelligence offers a learning lifeline www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/n...

A fascinating data visualization on the mappings between CSTA and NGSS standards through data science. apicancode.umd.edu/standards.html

Democratic Wins Media on Substack BREAKING: Fareed Zakaria just gave a masterclass on everything that’s wrong with Donald Trump’s second term policies. This is incredible.

Why is the Trump administration destroying the US's biggest advantages? substack.com/@demwinsmedi...

Hadn't really thought about it before, but Langdon Winner's "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" is a clear counterexample to Betteridge's Law.

Why kids still need to learn to code in the age of AI  - Raspberry Pi Foundation Our new position paper sets out five arguments for why we think that kids still need to learn to code in the age of artificial intelligence.

Why kids still need to learn to code in the age of AI: a new position paper argues it's more important than ever.

This blog from the Raspberry Pi Foundation shares 5 key arguments.

www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-kid...

#AIEdu #CSForAll

Felienne Hermans photo

26 June, join @felienne.bsky.social (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social), creator of #Hedy & author of "The Programmer's Brain" (@manningbooks.bsky.social) for the #ACMTechTalk "Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design." @markguzdial.bsky.social will moderate.

Register: bit.ly/3Z8F4LO

Incorrect (though def understand where the confusion comes from):

If you want to see the planned impact on science with the proposed National Science Foundation cuts, this table in particular demonstrates it most devastatingly. Going from 330,000 people to 90,000 people involved in NSF activities. #SaveNSF

From: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Am I reading this right? CAREER awards are gone? GRFP, IUSE, CSGrad4US, CS4All -- all gone? nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Seeking K-12 Computing Teachers With Emerging Bilingual students in their classes

Emma Dodoo is a PhD student working with me. Emma works with K-12 computing teachers who have emerging bilingual (EB) students in their classes, e.g., students for whom Spanish is their first language and who might…

Trump has gained ground in 3 consecutive elections across large parts of the nation, concentrated in the least educated, poorest, & most non-white counties. Democrats have gained consecutively in only a small set of mostly educated, rich, white counties:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Congratulations, Dr. Tamara Nelson-Fromm! @tamaraniac.bsky.social

A natural outcome of mandating CS classes without funding for professional learning opportunities and resource development. #CSforAll (Facebook post)