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Teaching the CS principles curriculum with App Inventor (abstract only)

Published:06 March 2013Publication History

ABSTRACT

The CS Principles Project is an NSF-funded initiative to develop a breadth-first advanced placement (AP) course in computer science. App Inventor is a visual, blocks-based programming language that makes sophisticated computing concepts accessible to a broad range of students. This hands-on workshop, aimed at high school and undergraduate teachers, will introduce participants to lessons, homework exercises, project assignments, and assessment materials (quizzes, grading rubrics) that can be used in an App Inventor-based CS0 course. Participants will develop simple Android apps, using devices provided by the workshop, and will use them in the context of lessons and assignments that fit within the CS Principles framework. A laptop is required. For further details see: http://is.gd/sigcse2013appinv.

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          SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
          March 2013
          818 pages
          ISBN:9781450318686
          DOI:10.1145/2445196

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          • Published: 6 March 2013

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          SIGCSE '13 Paper Acceptance Rate111of293submissions,38%Overall Acceptance Rate1,595of4,542submissions,35%

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