Computing Education Research Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

In April, I gave a talk at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D) “Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science” — slides available here, and video available here. The argument I’m making is that computer science as a field has become more narrow over time.

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Computer Science Computer Science Sciences 52

Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas. In employment contexts, is it fair to promote an employee who has missed a year of work because they had a baby, over an employee who has been working continuously for many years?

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Economics Government Mathematics Publication 111

Futurum

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Pathway from school to marine ecology • Some universities offer degrees in marine ecology, but studying a degree in ecology, marine biology, environmental science, geology, chemistry or oceanography is also an option. We’re taught that science is a truth, but that’s as subjective as any other statement.

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Geography Research Research Science 98

National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This has led to recent calls to replace the emphasis on algebra in schools with courses that center on quantitative literacy, data fluency, or statistical investigation (e.g., Arguments that suggest we do away with school algebra frame algebra itself as the problem and leave unexamined how and in what ways that algebra is taught.

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Algebra Mathematics Flexibility Research 76

Ellipsis Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Which is a system used within Python in the event an argument passed to a function is a string, integer or whole number, the passing is like call-by-value because you cannot change the value of the immutable objects passed to the function.

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IoT Computer Science Computer Argumentation 52

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

The function Map takes a function f and “maps it” over a list: Comap does the “mathematically co-” version of this, taking a list of functions and “comapping” them onto a single argument: Why is this useful? But we wanted to be able to compute hundreds of different functions to arbitrary precision for any complex values of their arguments.

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Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 102