Austin Cory Bart
Last week, I posted on the SIGCSE-Members listserv asking for guidance on supporting black students in CS1. I have been meaning to ask for that guidance for a while, ever since I analyzed the data from my CS1 class last fall and was disappointed to find that I was not doing enough to support this...
Austin Cory Bart
It’s been about half a year since I last posted, because it’s been a busy time creating new tools and curricula. Also in the past semester, I taught the “Introduction to Computer Science” course for CS majors (CISC108) for the third time. Recently, I was allowed to switch the course from Racket to...
Austin Cory Bart
Before the end of last year, I posted a blog asking, “What do we know about CS1?” The goal was to list some things that I felt we had good evidence for, based on research I’d read over the years. It wasn’t a deep dive into the literature, just shooting from the hip on a subject I theoretically...
Austin Cory Bart
I made a better follow-up to this post based on an awesome journal paper that came out around the same time! This February marks the 50th SIGCSE conference. Also that month, I will be tasked with rolling out University of Delaware’s pilot for a new CS1 course. Naturally, I have been doing a lot...