Keynote address: Expanding the audience for computer science

Authors:
Eric Roberts
Affiliations:
Stanford University
Venue:
SIGCSE '03 Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2003

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Abstract

According to prevailing labor projections, the demand for well-trained computer scientists and software developers will continue to grow in the coming years, in spite of the dot-com collapse. For the most part, the people who fill these positions -- and particularly those that require high levels of creativity and independence of thought -- will be trained by colleges and universities. Unfortunately, many highly talented students never investigate computer science as an academic option, either because they have not been exposed to what computing has to offer or because they feel themselves outside of the traditional computer science milieu. As computer science teachers, we have a collective responsibility to ensure that this discipline remains open to the widest possible range of students. In this talk, I will describe several strategies and tactics for achieving that goal.