Computer Science Teachers Conference (CSTA CS/IT 2010)
Yesterday was a long day well spent at Google headquarters for the Computer Science Teachers Association‘s annual Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium. It was a fairly modest gathering — I think there were about 200 of us (soon to be 10,000) – but a lot of great folks came out and there were fantastic conversations [...]
Rediscovering the passion.
“Has anyone considered the possibility that it’s just not fun any more?” – Don Knuth, Stanford University, October 2006 SIGCSE caught me in an interesting place somewhere between extreme career-angst and profound passion for ongoing CS projects. Unsurprisingly, a number of the sessions I chose to attend had to do with computer science’s negative image [...]
