Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education

The book explores what it takes to teach everyone to program. This revised edition revisits the question of how computing educators can meet the enormous demand of students who need programming knowledge but do not all use programming in the same ways or for the same purposes. Specifically, it considers whether the same goals as computer science education for professional software developers are relevant when targeting teaching to a broad or general audience of students and life-long learners. The goal of the book is to explain how to design computing education that starts from the learning sciences. It proposes use of a learner-centered design approach to create computing education for the growing and broad audience of students who are interested in learning about computing. It considers several reasons for teaching computing to everyone and how the different reasons lead to different choices about learning goals and teaching methods. This book reviews the history of the idea that programming isn't just for the professional software developer. It uses research studies on teaching computing in liberal arts programs, to working professionals, and to high school teachers as a concrete examples. The big idea is that computer science for everyone requires rethinking how and what is taught.

Aims to make computer science education accessible for all audiences Teaches educators and developers to design around user needs and experience Argues for computing education as a core skill across disciplines

Autorentext

Mark Guzdial is a professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and the director of the Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS) at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He was previously a professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in education and computer science (a joint degree) at the University of Michigan in 1993. He was one of the founders of the International Computing Education Research conference. With his wife and colleague, Barbara Ericson, he received the 2010 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator award. He is an ACM Distinguished Educator and a Fellow of the ACM and of AAAS. He was the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award and the 2019 ACM SIGCSE Outstanding Contributions to Education award.

Inhalt

Teaching Computing to Everyone.- How People Learn Programming.- Chapter: The Challenges of Learning Programming.- Computational Thinking and Using Programming to Learn.- Media Computation and Contextualized Computing Education.- Adults as Computing Learners.- Learner-Centered Computing Education for Computer Science Majors.- Methods for Learner-Centered Computing Education.