Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe: Making Computing Fun Again, part 5

摘要

In 2006, computing education was suffering from a crisis enrollments were dropping sharply at universities and colleges across the United States, and interest in computing from high school and middle school students was waning significantly. At the 2007 SIGCSE Symposium, the ACM Education Board organized a special session to explore the underlying causes [4]. In his keynote at the same conference, Grady Booch exhorted us to share the "passion, beauty, joy and awe" (PBJA) of computing [3]. This led to a series of room-packed sessions at the following four SIGCSE symposia to explore that idea from different angles [7,8,9, 12]. They have provided a forum for sharing: