Rethinking CS101:
Innovations in Introductory Computer Programming

Publications

• An overview/motivation statement (html) (and proposal) was written for a general audience. (1/98)
  Stein, L. A., "Reconceptualizing Computation: Radically Rethinking CS1".
  
• The textbook prospectus provides a good overview of that project.
• A journal-length description (html) of the curriculum project, including a course description, was written for Computer Science Educators.
  • Stein, L. A., "What We've Swept Under the Rug: Radically Rethinking CS1". Computer Science Education 8(2):118-129, 1998.
• The big picture (html) of which the Rethinking CS101 project is a part is described in
  • Stein, L. A., "Challenging the Computational Metaphor: Implications for How We Think". Cybernetics and Systems 30(6), 1999.
• A position statement (html). (from ACM Strategic Directions in Computing Research Working Group on Education, 6/96)
  Stein, L. A., "Interactive Programming: Revolutionizing Introductory Computer Science," Computing Surveys, 28A (4). Earlier version appears in the working notes of the ACM Strategic Directions in Computing Research Working Group on Computer Science Education.
• An earlier course description (postscript). (written for object-oriented educators, 3/97)
  Stein, L. A., "Beyond Objects," in the Educator's Symposium, Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997.
• A curriculum development proposal. (4/96)
• A detailed, but somewhat out-of-date, description, with robots. (html) (4/96)
  Stein, L. A., "Rethinking CS101: Or, How Robots Revolutionize Introductory Computer Programming," accepted for publication in Computer Science Education.

Seminars and Talks

Available Now:

On Demand:
• Department of Computer Science Colloquium at the University of Washington, January 15, 1998.
By Mail Order:
• Videotape for the Department of Computer Science Colloquium at the University of Washington, January 15, 1998, is available now.
• "The Real Computer Revolution" (September 1998) and "Why Your Computer is not an Abacus: Deconstructing the Central Myth of Computer Science" (April 1998), two talks for a general audience, were both videotaped. For copies, contact the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.
• "Preaching What We Practice: How AI is Changing the Concept of Computation," an invited talk presented at the 1997 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence -- was audio taped and is available through the AAAI. The slides for this talk are also available from the author.
• "Rethinking CS101: How Robotics Revolutionizes Introductory Computer Programming," EECS Colloquium at MIT, May 13, 1996 (videotape available through MIT's Center for Advanced Educational Services).

Past:

• April 1999, "Cultural Revolutions in Computer Science", Conference on Diversifying the Culture and Curriculum of Science and Women's Studies, Kingston, Rhode Island.
• March 1999, "Challenging the Computational Metaphor:  Implications for How We Think", Computer Science Department, Brandeis College, Waltham, Massachusetts.
• October 1998, "Radically Rethinking Introductory Computer Science Education", The MacArthur Chair Program on Inquiry-Based Learning in People and Machines, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
• September 1998, "The Real Computer Revolution", Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Keynote address at the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges Third Annual Northeastern Conference, Fairfield, Connecticut, 23 April 1998.
• "Challenging the Computational Metaphor: Implications for How We Think", W. Ross Ashby Memorial Lecture of the International Federation for Systems Research, Plenary Address at the Fourteenth European Meeting for Systems and Cybernetics Research, Vienna, Austria, 15 April 1998.
• A talk for a non-technical audience: "Why Your Computer is not an Abacus: Deconstructing the Central Myth of Computer Science", Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 April 1998.
• NERCOMP Annual Conference, a CAUSE affiliate program: "The Changing Face of IT", Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 22-24 March 1998.
• Panelist, BYTE Magazine's Java Adoption Survey, Waltham, Massachusetts, February 1998.
• "Preaching What We Practice: Radically Rethinking CS101," Computer Science Colloquium Series, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1997.
• "Interactive Programming in Java: A NonStandard Introduction," Tutorial presented at OOPSLA '97, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997.
• Panel on "Teaching OO," OOPSLA '97 Educator's Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997.
• "Changing Conceptions of Computation: Pedagogic Implications," Class(es) of 1960s Scholar Lecture, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, April, 1997.
• "Rethinking CS101: How Robotics Revolutionizes Introductory Computer Programming," Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, June 1996.

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