Computer Science for High Schools

CS4HS Workshop on Alice

November 17, 2012
Room 114, Academic Quad, Florida Tech

(funding provided by Google)


Materials from the workshop


Attending the workshop


Background

Computer Science (CS) has impacted our daily lives--from how we communicate to how we shop. It has also helped advance our understanding in various academic fields such as biology, physics, and medicine. CS has been an Advanced Placement (AP) subject since 1984. Currently, one of the 16 Brevard public high schools offers AP CS consistently.

Goals

  1. help teachers learn problem solving via animation with Alice--an educational software designed for easier transition to Java, which is used in AP CS.
  2. indirectly raise interests in CS and Alice among students (and a student competition on Alice next March).

Audience

Incentives for Participants

Registration