Category Archives: SIGCSE

UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference

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This year, Neil Brown and I are serving as program co-chairs of the new UK and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference. It will be held at the University of Kent on 5-6th September 2019. The committee includes Janet Carter as conference chair, along with Sally Fincher, Quintin Cuttsand Steven Bradley. Steven has been running the Computing Education Practice conference at Durham for the past few years, which has grown impressively. We believe that there is a growing community of computing education researchers in the UK and Ireland, but we do not have a local conference to support this community’s growth. Our hope is that this sister conference to CEP will provide a useful outlet to share Irish and British computing education research, and encourage research collaborations.

The conference will run roughly from lunchtime on the 5th to lunchtime on the 6th, with some collaboration-building events beforehand and some workshops afterwards. We thus invite submissions of research papers (max 6 pages, ACM format), and proposals for 1-2 hour workshops, by the beginning of June. More details are available on the conference website. Please feel free to send any questions to [email protected] and please do share this news with anyone you think might be interested in submitting or attending. We hope to see a variety of researchers and educators for all age groups.

SIGCSE 2019 paper #3: What Do CS1 Syllabi Reveal About Our Expectations of Introductory Programming Students?

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Today I am presenting my third and final paper at the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. It is titled “What Do CS1 Syllabi Reveal About Our Expectations of Introductory Programming Students?” My coauthor is Thomas Fitzpatrick who was at the time an undergraduate student at UCD and is now pursuing a PhD there. Full details including the full paper, slides, and dataset we used in the paper are available at cszero.

SIGCSE 2019 Paper #2 – Best Paper Award

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I was thrilled to learn that a paper I co-authored, First Things First: Providing Metacognitive Scaffolding for Interpreting Problem Prompts, was selected for the best Computer Science Education Research paper award at the 2019 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.

I had a great time working on this project with my co-authors: James Prather, Ray Pettit, Paul Denny, Dastyni Loksa, Alani Peters, Zachary Albrecht and Krista Masci, and I look forward to future work with them in this area. The paper will be presented on Friday, March 1 at SIGCSE 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at 11:10AM. Full details are available over on cszero.

SIGCSE 2019 paper #1: 50 Years of CS1 at SIGCSE: A Review of the Evolution of Introductory Programming Education Research

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Today Keith Quille and I presented our SIGCSE 2019 paper “50 Years of CS1 at SIGCSE: A Review of the Evolution of Introductory Programming Education Research” which was published as part of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education’s Technical Symposium 50th Anniversary Celebration. We had a great time writing this paper and even more fun presenting it at a special discussant-led session that lasted a whole hour and fifteen minutes! Full details including paper, slides, and supplementary data here.

ACM Global Computing Education Conference (CompEd 2019) – Reviewers Needed

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CompEd 2019 – Call for Reviewers
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ACM Global Computing Education Conference
17-19 May 2019, Chengdu, China, www.acmcomped.org

We invite expressions of interest in serving as a reviewer or an associate program chair (APC) for full papers, or a reviewer for posters.  If you are interested, please let us know by completing the form at http://www.acmcomped.org/reviewers/.

For more information about CompEd 2019, see the CfP at http://www.acmcomped.org/call-for-participation/

Important Dates: All deadlines refer to 23:59 Anywhere on Earth on that day
* Tuesday, 16 October 2018: Paper Abstracts (250 words maximum)
* Tuesday, 23 October 2018: Full Papers, Panels, Working Groups
* Tuesday, 11 December 2018: BoFs and Posters

Feel free to contact me if you have questions about CompEd 2019. I am happy to be serving as the Chair of the CompEd Steering Committee.

ACM Global Computing Education Conference

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I am proud to be serving as Chair of the Steering Committee for the ACM Global Computing Education Conference (CompEd). CompEd is the 4th conference to be sponsored by SIGCSE.

The first CompEd will be held in Chengdu, China in May, 2019. We are considering a site in India for the second offering. The language of the conference will be English, and we are projecting a 33% acceptance rate.

The conference may be held anywhere on Earth, outside North America and Europe, where the other three SIGCSE conferences are frequent: the SIGCSE Technical Symposium (always held in the US), ITiCSE (always held in Europe*), and ICER which floats between North America, Europe, and Australasia.

*In 2016 ITiCSE was held in Peru, and this was part of the decision to launch a 4th ‘global’ conference.

More information on the conference can be found here. I will be sharing regular updates here and at CS0 as things progress.