0 Re-imaging the first year of computing

Principles is the 'new' and proposed AP CS course. The Collegeboard, CSTA and lots of other folks are working to develop this curriculum.I found it interesting that they are piloting the curriculum at colleges/universities PRIOR to pilots at high schools. The rationale is that piloting at colleges/universities will show that this is college level material.

Maybe this can be the start of an agreed upon CS0 course for colleges/universities??

Website - www.csprinciples.org

Big Ideas

1. Computing is a creative human activity that engenders innovation and promotes exploration.

2. Abstraction reduces information and detail to focus on concepts relevant to understanding and solving problems.

3. Data and information facilitate the creation of knowledge.

4. Algorithms are tools for developing and expressing solutions to computational problems.

5. Programming is a creative process that produces computational artifacts.

6. Digital devices, systems, and the networks that interconnect them enable and foster computational approaches to solving problems.

7. Computing enables innovation in other fields including science, social science, humanities, arts, medicine, engineering, and business.

Pilot studies
10 colleges universities
5 high schools (possible increase, as many as 10)

Goal: Have this new curriculum taught in 10,000 schools by 2015.