cs education

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Open problems

• How to interest people in CS?
• How to make CS more interesting/relevant?
• How to make programming easier and more fun?
• How to make debugging easier?
• How to make programming assignments more fun and less stressful?
  • provide more feedback
• How to make algorithms more interesting?

Stack: an open-source collection of teaching activities for understanding and practicing CS concepts. https://github.com/teaching-lab/stack-cs-activities

Unplugged activities

• 2d parity bit magic trick
• exploring the hexahexaflexagon graph
• flowchart for moving marbles

CS Camp 2021

• 1:30pm to 4:30pm each day, Monday (20th Dec) to Friday (24th Dec). Held at LccL in Tanglin Shopping Centre.
• Polya’s four step problem solving process for Competitive Programming

Courses

• Harvard’s CS50
• Berkeley’s BJC
• SICPJS https://sourceacademy.org/sicpjs/index

Using games

• Minecraft clone in 50 lines Python using the Ursina game engine
  • https://github.com/pokepetter/ursina/blob/master/samples/minecraft_clone.py
• Games based on Computer Science

Using virtual environments

• Micromouse Maze Simulator
• Malmo

Computational thinking

Web with Python

• https://brython.info/
• https://pynecone.io/
• https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui

CS3230 Design and Analysis of Algorithms

• CS3230 Project
• Comments for CS3230
• finding largest and one more with fewest comparisons

selfie

• self-compiling C compiler, a tiny self-executing RISC-V emulator, and a tiny self-hosting RISC-V hypervisor

A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing

Gradually introduce new syntax, Hedy

static sorting visualization

LccL, https://www.thelab.sg/