Computer Science Education Resources

• Organizations
• Journals
• Information collections
• Curriculum
• The introductory sequence
• Information by course/topic
• Software Support
• Instructional resources
• CS Ed research resources

Organizations

• Association for Computing Machinery
  • SIGCSE - ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
  • International Collegiate Programming Contest
• Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
• EDUCAUSE (Formerly EduCom and CAUSE)
• Computing Research Association (CRA)

Journals

• Computer Science Education - from Swets & Zeitlinger
• Computers & Education - from Elsevier
• Education and Information Technologies - Official Journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education
• SIGCSE Bulletin

Information collections

• CS Ed links from SIGCSE (Renee McCauley)
• Text Book Publisher's web sites
• Revised Model Curriculum - Liberal Arts CS Degree
• Shaping the Future - Review of undergrad education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources.
• Computer Science Accreditation Board web site
• Teaching and Learning Formal Methods by Neville Dean
• Computer Research Association's CS Graduate Program database

Curriculum

• Model Curricula for Undergraduate Programs in Computer Science and Related Fields - maintained by Martin Dickey, CSE Dept., University of Washington
• The Introductory sequence
• Java in the CS Curriculum - Fintan Culwin, South Bank University (UK). A summary of a panel discussion at SIGCSE '97, with other links to Java resources.

The Introductory Sequence

• AP Java Subset
• Max Hailperin's slides from SIGCSE 96 panel "The First Year Beyond Language"
• AP Computer Science
• C++ in AP CS Draft
• ACM AP CS Ad Hoc Committee
• Java White Paper
• Quotations for CS1 - Collected by Rich Pattis

Pedagogy

• Pedagogical Patterns by Joe Bergin of Pace University

Instructional Resources

• Textbook publishers
• Instructional software
• Nifty Assignments - from the SIGCSE "Nifty Assignmnents" panel sessions
• Citidel Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library, sponsored by NSF.
• Computer Science Teaching Center (Supercedes the SIGCSE Computing Laboratory Repository)
• NSF Computer Science Courseware Repository
• CS Education Library (Stanford CS Department)

Software supporting CS instruction

• LINK - an interactive system for Discrete Mathematics instruction.
• Polka/Samba Algorithm Animation software.
• Algorithm animation collection - by Guido Rößling, University Siegen
• Catai Algorithm Animation package - Umberto Petrillo, University of Salerno

CS Education Research

• Computer Science Education Research Groups International (CSERGI)
• CS Ed research at George Washington U.
• Computer Science Education Research Group, Georgia Tech
• Computer Science Education Research Group at the University of Texas at Austin
• Uppsala Computer Science Education Research Group (UpCSERG)
• CS-Ed.org - an on-line community for CS-Ed researchers