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Spring 2006 Schedule

(12:15 - 1:15 PM , 326 TSRB)

DateTopicPapers/Materials to ReviewDiscussion Leader
January 18Organization
February 1Back to Basics in CS1 and CS2 Stu Reges SIGCSE PaperMark
February 15How to Design a Course Syllabus - Follow the Language or Follow the TopicsExample Lectures Slides TBD from BillBill
Feburary 22Games in the CurriculumPapers from SIGCSE SessionMark
March 1No Meeting SIGCSE
March 15Etudes for CSSoloway PaperDorn
March 29Math vs Computing AbstractionHazzan PaperMike
April 12Threshold ConceptsTBDAllison
April 26Using Programming for Learning PhysicsSherin PaperMark

Fall 2005



Spring 2005 Work



Fall 2004 Schedule



Fall 2004


Here's what we decided upon as our schedule. We're meeting 12-1 every-other-Wednesday in 109 CCB


Undergrad retreat - 23 April 2004
Aaron's question page
Great Principles at SIGCSE 2004

Fall 2003



Fall 2002

Aug 26 – A John Pane paper
J.F. Pane, C.A. Ratanamahatana, and B.A. Myers, Studying the Language and Structure in Non-Programmers' Solutions to Programming Problems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 54, no. 2, February 2001, pp. 237-264. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/IJHCS.html

9/2 – NO MEETING! Labor Day

9/9 – A Second John Pane paper
J.F. Pane, B.A. Myers, and L.B. Miller, Using HCI Techniques to Design a More Usable ProgrammingSystem, Symposium on Empirical Studies of Programmers (ESP02), Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC 2002), Arlington, VA, September 3-6, 2002, to appear. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/HCC2002.html

9/16 – Mike on subproblem generation and evaluation
9/23 – Amy Bruckman: Gender issues in MOOSE Crossing. http://newmedia.colorado.edu/cscl/63.pdf
9/30 – Rich on the IFIP Working Group he went to this summer
10/7 – OPEN
10/14 – NO MEETING! Semester Break
10/21 – Bill on new course to replace ECE2030
10/28 – Jason Williams on "Open Toolsets: New Ends and Means in Learning
Mathematics and Science with Computers" (ftp://soe.berkeley.edu/pub/boxer/Distribution/toolsets.pdf)
11/4 – Mark on ECoDE findings
11/11 – Mike on CSAS work
11/18 – Mark on overview and research issues in the MediaComp class (http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-plan)
SWAPPED
12/2 – Review of how the collaborative activities and survey in CS1322 is going
11/25 – Review of how CS1 collaborative activities are going

I think that class size fits in the "GT is not for me" category. - Je77

There is a recent book that is very relevant to issues of
enrollment and retention of women in CS. "Unlocking the
clubhouse: women in computing," Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher,
MIT Press. Would make a good topic for a seminar. - Ellen

Discuss possible confusions with CoC's new Computational Sciences and Engineering Division (CSED)

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