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Notes (Mostly) from SIGCSE 2010

Computing Portal
Nifty Assignments source.
Nifty assignments from Tom Murtagh: Weaving CS into CS1.
ACM Java Library
Box Game: Sorting moving colored dots into correct half.
Just in Time Teaching
Intel Smoke demo
Visual Learning
- Gonick cartoon guide
- The FORTRAN coloring book
PBJA: Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe of Computing
- Computing Portal site
- No one right answer: Greep, Battleship, Blackjack simulation
- “Don't be a Google story.”
- Gallery/quilt of project results.
- GWAP games.
Concurrency Session
- ConcJunit works with DrJava for unit testing of concurrent programs.
- Example programs: multithreaded breakout, increment shared counter, breakout (from SIGCSE 2006 nifty assignments).
- Event-based programming in Java: Java: An eventful approach from Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk, and Thomas P. Murtagh.
- More examples: pong, boxball, frogger.
Keynote: Carl Wieman
Selected session notes
- Justification to teach programming: More and more applications are scriptable
- Moodle support anonymous peer review
- Scratch being enhanced to support use with SiCP
- Computing (and programming) being used for self expression in middle and high schools. Important to share the results online or in the classroom.
- When Alice crashes it loses changes to the world in progress.
- Java bat
Denning luncheon: Carse infinite and finite games
There is a paper on the 32 most difficult concepts in CS
Make classes immutable to simplify reasoning about concurrency.
Employment interviews are now requiring discussion about concurrency.
Feynman quote about concurrency
Olin College doing parallel programming first. Lynn Stein.
Keynote: Fincher
- Max Boisot information
- Taxi vs. GPS example
- Onion in varnish story
- From “concrete and codified” to “abstract and uncodified”: narratives bridges the gap
- Have narrative be descriptive not prescriptive. How I did it not how you should do it? (Disciplinary Commons)
- Auhentic stories. Lightweight, fragmented, anecdotal. Collecting narratives of day every day academic.
- http://www.sharingpractice.ac.uk.
- T-shirt slogan: “This is what a Computer Scientist looks like.”