Robots make computer science personal

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Blank, Douglas ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; LANGUAGE PYTHON; PEDAGOGICAL SALABILITY; PERSONAL ROBOT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCAFFOLDS; STUDENTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33751565441     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1183236.1183254     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. Guzdial, M. Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python: A Multimedia Approach. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2004; sec also the Pyro Robotics Project pyrorobotics.org.
2. Margolis, J. and Fisher, A. Unlocking the Clubhouse; Women in Computing, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003.
3. Pattis, R. Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Programming, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1994.
4. Vegso, J. Interest in CS as a major drops among incoming freshmen. Computing Research News 17, 3 (May 2005); www.cra.org/CRN/articles/mav05/vegso.