Curricula and Courses

• CS Principles
  • Pilot sites
  • Patrick Henry HS - Ashland VA
• Exploring CS (LA)
• Beauty and Joy of Computing (Berkeley)
• CS Principles (Washington)
• Living in a Computing World (Metro State Col of Dever)
• College Board CS principles
• Florida Standards (CPALMS)
• Programming at Florida Virtual School, Slides

Tools

• More "engaging" approaches
  • Greenfoot [Java], Greenroom community
  • Karel J. Robot [Java]
  • Alice [Alice or Java syntax], Tutorials at Duke
  • Scratch ["lego blocks"], Scratch Ed community
  • App Inventor (Android) ["lego blocks"]
  • Pico Crickets
• Development Environment (Editor)
  • Notepad++
  • Bluej
  • Eclipse
  • Java WIDE
  • Java Compiler&Runner [within the web browser]
• Online practice
  • Coding Bat [within the web browser]

Repositories of teaching materials

• CS Unplugged
• Nifty Assignments at Stanford
• Stanford CS Education Library
• Exploring Computational Thinking at Google
• Khan Academy--CS
• Open Educational Resources
• Google Code university
• youtube edu

Books

• CS 0 (proposed AP CS Principles)
  • Blown to Bits (Abelson et al., 2008) [Free on web]
  • D is for Digital (Kernighan, 2011)
  • Computer Science : An Overview (Brookshear, 2011)
  • Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities (Synder, 2010)
  • Algorithmics: The spirit of computing (Harel and Feldman, 2004)
• CS 1 (AP CS): alternative approaches
  • Introduction to Programming in Java: an interdisciplinary approach, Sedgewick and Wayne (with web resources)
  • Introduction to Computing and Programming in Java: A Multimedia Approach, Guzdial and Ericson (with web resources)

Competitions

• Brevard Science Fair
• USA Computing Olympiad
• FIRST robotics
• Imagine Cup (16 or older in high school or college)

Portals

• Computing Portal
• Learning Registry
• National Science Digital Library

Organizations/Communities

• CSTA
• Disciplinary Commons for Computing Educators

Free online university courses

• Interactive videos
  • Coursera
  • Udacity
  • edX
• Recording of on-campus lectures
  • MIT Open Courseware (OCW)
  • Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE)

Recent Advances in CS

• Google Glass Project with Videos
• Apple Siri
• Watson beat human champions in 2011
• Google Car, Google car with Steve Mahan (blind)
• small-size robot soccer, humanoid soccer, humans vs robots
• Deep Blue beat G. Kasparov in 1997

Jobs

• CNN Money - Computer Science jobs
• Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bureau of Labor Statistics, March, 2012) -- data with search criteria
• Occupational employment projects to 2020 (BLS, January, 2012) -- pages 90-91 include data from 2006 (the great recession)