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Computer science principles at Newbury Park High School

Published: 01 June 2012 Publication History

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Newbury Park high School in Southern California is one of 10 high schools participating in the 2011-12 pilot of Computer Science Principles. Teacher Richard Kick describes student activities from his course, shares some examples of student work, and reflects on student engagement with the material and the inspiration they draw from it.

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cover image ACM Inroads
ACM Inroads  Volume 3, Issue 2
June 2012
86 pages
ISSN:2153-2184
EISSN:2153-2192
DOI:10.1145/2189835
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Published: 01 June 2012
Published in INROADS Volume 3, Issue 2

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  2. CS principles
  3. computer science education
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  • (2020)Design Principles behind Beauty and Joy of ComputingProceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3328778.3366794(220-226)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2020
  • (2019)Beauty and Joy of ComputingProceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3287324.3287375(627-633)Online publication date: 22-Feb-2019
  • (2012)'Computing, we have a problem …'ACM Inroads10.1145/2381083.23810973:4(34-40)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2012

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