Presented by:
Dan Garcia
from
UC Berkeley
<p>Dan Garcia is a Teaching Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He was selected as an ACM Distinguished Educator in 2012 and ACM Distinguished Speaker in 2019, and is a national leader in the "CSforALL" movement, bringing engaging computer science to students normally underrepresented in the field. </p>
<p>Thanks to four National Science Foundation grants, the "Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)" non-majors course he co-developed has been shared with over 800 high school teachers...
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The Beauty and Joy of Computing is UC Berkeley's diversity-record-setting non-majors course that has achieved national recognition. It has been shared with over 800 teachers worldwide and has been endorsed by the College Board. Two years ago we started developing a Middle School version of the course, emphasizing functional programming, 2D and 3D graphics, student creativity, and engagement. We presented the first two units of the course at SnapCon 2019; since then we have continued to develop the next two units -- Media Computation and Hardware, and will present fun exercises from these units to the workshop participants.
Discuss on the Snap! Forum
- Duration:
- 1 h
- Room:
- Zoom 1
- Conference:
- Snap!Con 2020
- Type:
- Workshop
- Track:
- Workshop
- Difficulty:
- N/A