Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold – New York Times

Interesting comment — I keep wondering what people who make this type of comment think we SHOULD teach in high school computer science and how we should teach it. 

The Advanced Placement high school course in computer science may be part of the problem, according to Dr. Cuny. “The AP computer course is a disaster,” she said. “It teaches Java programming, which is very appealing to a lot of people, but not to others. It doesn’t teach what you can do with computers.”

Source: Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold – New York Times

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  1. Alfred Thompson Avatar

    You want them to suggest a solution rather than just whine? So do I. I think that the stuff in the CS 4 HS workshop at CMU is good stuff. But you and I know that most people teaching AP CS have little time for anything that isn’t on the test.

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