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ACM Computing Careers Website
This website provides details that will help you prepare for a career in the exciting field of computing.
This website provides details that will help you prepare for a career in the exciting field of computing.
ACM Curriculum Recommendations
ACM, along with other leading societies, offers curriculum recommendations that address the rapidly changing nature of computer technology.
ACM, along with other leading societies, offers curriculum recommendations that address the rapidly changing nature of computer technology.
ACM Online Resources for Graduating Students
As an organization dedicated to advancing computing as a science and profession, ACM takes pride in helping its student members prepare for their careers by ensuring that a wealth of information and resources are always available at their fingertips.
As an organization dedicated to advancing computing as a science and profession, ACM takes pride in helping its student members prepare for their careers by ensuring that a wealth of information and resources are always available at their fingertips.
America’s Got Talent
This resource provides the rationale for CS Principles, a new Advanced Placement computing course in Development by NSF and the College Board, and describes how to support its implementation in the school system.
This resource provides the rationale for CS Principles, a new Advanced Placement computing course in Development by NSF and the College Board, and describes how to support its implementation in the school system.
Azure for CS101
Microsoft is bringing cloud computing into the mainstream of academic instruction. The target audience are the instructors of second or third year undergraduate classes in computer science or software engineering.
Microsoft is bringing cloud computing into the mainstream of academic instruction. The target audience are the instructors of second or third year undergraduate classes in computer science or software engineering.
By the Numbers (PDF)
Statistics on women and information technology developed by NCWIT.
Statistics on women and information technology developed by NCWIT.
CAP Space from the ACM Two-Year College Education Committee
CAP Space from the ACM Two-Year College Education Committee is an interactive repository of Curricula, Assessment and Pedagogical resources for associate-degree programs in computer science and other computing disciplines.
CAP Space from the ACM Two-Year College Education Committee is an interactive repository of Curricula, Assessment and Pedagogical resources for associate-degree programs in computer science and other computing disciplines.
CMU Resources Promoting Excitement of Computer Science
The members of Carnegie Mellon's Women@SCS have put put together a number of resources illustrating the many exciting areas of computer science. Parents, teachers, and students can browse the site and download resources such as posters, powerpoint roadshows, and brochures.
The members of Carnegie Mellon's Women@SCS have put put together a number of resources illustrating the many exciting areas of computer science. Parents, teachers, and students can browse the site and download resources such as posters, powerpoint roadshows, and brochures.
College Board AP CS course
Computer Science A emphasizes object-oriented programming methodology with an emphasis on problem solving and algorithm development and is meant to be the equivalent of a first-semester course in computer science.
Computer Science A emphasizes object-oriented programming methodology with an emphasis on problem solving and algorithm development and is meant to be the equivalent of a first-semester course in computer science.
Communicating for Change (PDF)
Persuade Colleagues to Get on Board.
Persuade Colleagues to Get on Board.
Computational Thinking
Resources and curriculum for educators on Computational Thinking from Google.
Resources and curriculum for educators on Computational Thinking from Google.
Computational Thinking at Carnegie Mellon University
Computational thinking is a way of solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior that draws on concepts fundamental to computer science.
Computational thinking is a way of solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior that draws on concepts fundamental to computer science.
Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions
A consortium of universities that are committed to increasing the number of Hispanics who earn baccalaureate and advanced degrees in computing.
A consortium of universities that are committed to increasing the number of Hispanics who earn baccalaureate and advanced degrees in computing.
CSEdWeek Daily Videos
As part of its commitment to support CSEdWeek (Dec. 5-11, 2010) activities, the Computer Science Teachers Association has created a series of videos that schools and teachers can use for morning announcements or in the classroom. These video files are intended to inform and engage students and to help them understand the many opportunities computer science provides.
As part of its commitment to support CSEdWeek (Dec. 5-11, 2010) activities, the Computer Science Teachers Association has created a series of videos that schools and teachers can use for morning announcements or in the classroom. These video files are intended to inform and engage students and to help them understand the many opportunities computer science provides.
Ensemble: A Digital Library for Computing Education
Ensemble, a new NSF National Science Digital Library Pathways Project, is a national, distributed digital library and “community center” containing resources for all levels of computing education, including K-12 education.
Ensemble, a new NSF National Science Digital Library Pathways Project, is a national, distributed digital library and “community center” containing resources for all levels of computing education, including K-12 education.
Exemplar Programs for Non-Majors
This page contains a sampling of courses on computer science and computational thinking that are specifically designed for non-majors. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to demonstrate a spectrum of different approaches.
This page contains a sampling of courses on computer science and computational thinking that are specifically designed for non-majors. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to demonstrate a spectrum of different approaches.
Find Hidden Messages in Songs
This activity involves listening to songs and finding hidden messages based on the same principle as a modem. The binary number activity briefly mentions how text could be coded using sound -- high and low beeps represent binary digits, which in turn can be decoded to numbers that represent the letters of the alphabet.
This activity involves listening to songs and finding hidden messages based on the same principle as a modem. The binary number activity briefly mentions how text could be coded using sound -- high and low beeps represent binary digits, which in turn can be decoded to numbers that represent the letters of the alphabet.
Gearing Up for Change (PDF)
Institutional Reform in Undergraduate Computing Programs.
Institutional Reform in Undergraduate Computing Programs.
Globaloria (PDF)
Empowering Students and Educators with 21st-Century Digital Literacy through a Game-Making Learning Network
Empowering Students and Educators with 21st-Century Digital Literacy through a Game-Making Learning Network
Google Code University
This Web site provides tutorials and sample course content so computer science students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms.
This Web site provides tutorials and sample course content so computer science students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources
Moving Beyond Computer Literacy: Why schools should teach computer science
Use this handy resource to inform policy makers at your school about the importance of quality computer science education.
Use this handy resource to inform policy makers at your school about the importance of quality computer science education.
NCWIT Computing Jobs Data By State
Computing Education and Future Jobs: National, State, and Congressional District Data -- See NCWIT's interactive map of computing education and workforce data to see what the story is where you live.
Computing Education and Future Jobs: National, State, and Congressional District Data -- See NCWIT's interactive map of computing education and workforce data to see what the story is where you live.
NCWIT Outreach Resources
NCWIT outreach resources are well-researched, well-designed, and well-suited to appeal to all kinds of audiences interested in CS outreach to women and girls.
NCWIT outreach resources are well-researched, well-designed, and well-suited to appeal to all kinds of audiences interested in CS outreach to women and girls.
NCWIT’s “Heroes” Podcasts
Audio Interview - NCWIT Heroes is a series of magazine-style audio interviews highlighting women and men entrepreneurs in information technology (IT) careers. NCWIT Heroes are women and men innovators from small companies, larger corporations, and non-profits, whose ideas and products are changing the way we think, work, play, and communicate.
Audio Interview - NCWIT Heroes is a series of magazine-style audio interviews highlighting women and men entrepreneurs in information technology (IT) careers. NCWIT Heroes are women and men innovators from small companies, larger corporations, and non-profits, whose ideas and products are changing the way we think, work, play, and communicate.
NCWIT’s Reports and Articles
NCWIT reports present compelling research and data in easily digestible packaging and are authored by some of the most esteemed gender and science researchers in the country.
NCWIT reports present compelling research and data in easily digestible packaging and are authored by some of the most esteemed gender and science researchers in the country.
Outreach-in-a-Box: Discovering IT
This resource provides tools for IT professionals to conduct activities with students or youth programs.
This resource provides tools for IT professionals to conduct activities with students or youth programs.
Pipeline-in-a-Box: Promoting Advancement of CS/IT Students from Two-Year to Four-Year Institutions
This resource outlines five steps for strengthening the relationship between faculty, administrators, and advisors at community colleges and four-year institutions in order to increase the number of students, including underrepresented groups, graduating with computer science (CS) or information technology (IT) baccalaureate degrees. Pipeline-in-a-Box provides strategies, data, templates, posters, presentations, and other resources for recruiting, transferring, and graduating students obtaining degrees in CS and IT.
This resource outlines five steps for strengthening the relationship between faculty, administrators, and advisors at community colleges and four-year institutions in order to increase the number of students, including underrepresented groups, graduating with computer science (CS) or information technology (IT) baccalaureate degrees. Pipeline-in-a-Box provides strategies, data, templates, posters, presentations, and other resources for recruiting, transferring, and graduating students obtaining degrees in CS and IT.
Promising Practices for Recruiting, Retaining & Advancing Women in IT
NCWIT promising practices use social science research as a foundation for advice, case studies, and activities that are proven to attract, retain, and advance girls and women in IT.
NCWIT promising practices use social science research as a foundation for advice, case studies, and activities that are proven to attract, retain, and advance girls and women in IT.
Rising Above the Gathering Storm
In a world where advanced knowledge is widespread and low-cost labor is readily available, U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have begun to erode. A comprehensive and coordinated federal effort is urgently needed to bolster U.S. competitiveness and preeminence in these areas. This Congressional requested report by a preeminent committee makes four recommendations along with 20 implementation actions that federal policy-makers should take to create high-quality jobs and focus new science and technology efforts on meeting the nation's needs, especially in the area of clean, affordable energy.
In a world where advanced knowledge is widespread and low-cost labor is readily available, U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have begun to erode. A comprehensive and coordinated federal effort is urgently needed to bolster U.S. competitiveness and preeminence in these areas. This Congressional requested report by a preeminent committee makes four recommendations along with 20 implementation actions that federal policy-makers should take to create high-quality jobs and focus new science and technology efforts on meeting the nation's needs, especially in the area of clean, affordable energy.
Roadshow-in-a-Box: Capitalizing on Models for Outreach
Roadshow-in-a-Box provides the resources you need to design a memorable and motivating activity-based classroom experience that gives K-12 students an exciting introduction to computing.
Roadshow-in-a-Box provides the resources you need to design a memorable and motivating activity-based classroom experience that gives K-12 students an exciting introduction to computing.
Running on Empty
Computer science and the technologies it enables now lie at the heart of our economy, our daily lives, and scientific enterprise. As the digital age has transformed the world and workforce, U.S. K–12 education has fallen woefully behind in preparing students with the fundamental computer science knowledge and skills they need for future success.
Computer science and the technologies it enables now lie at the heart of our economy, our daily lives, and scientific enterprise. As the digital age has transformed the world and workforce, U.S. K–12 education has fallen woefully behind in preparing students with the fundamental computer science knowledge and skills they need for future success.
SAS Education Initiatives
There is growing concern about our children's preparation for the 21st century. Today's students will be the workforce of the future, and they will need to be successful for the U.S. to maintain a competitive edge in our global, knowledge-based economy. SAS helps by focusing its community engagements on one primary issue: education. Read about SAS' educational, many of which relate to computer science education. On a broad level, SAS seeks to integrate technology into education at all levels.
There is growing concern about our children's preparation for the 21st century. Today's students will be the workforce of the future, and they will need to be successful for the U.S. to maintain a competitive edge in our global, knowledge-based economy. SAS helps by focusing its community engagements on one primary issue: education. Read about SAS' educational, many of which relate to computer science education. On a broad level, SAS seeks to integrate technology into education at all levels.
Stuck in the Shallow End
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis looks at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. She finds an insidious "virtual segregation" that maintains inequality.
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis looks at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. She finds an insidious "virtual segregation" that maintains inequality.
Talking Points (English): What to Tell A Young Woman About a Career in Information Technology
Learn why Information Technology can be a great career for young women.
Learn why Information Technology can be a great career for young women.
Talking Points (Spanish): What to Tell A Young Woman About a Career in Information Technology
Learn why Information Technology can be a great career for young women. Available in English and Spanish.
Learn why Information Technology can be a great career for young women. Available in English and Spanish.
Taulbee Survey
The Taulbee Survey is the principal source of information on the enrollment, production, and employment of Ph.D.s in computer science and computer engineering (CS & CE) and in providing salary and demographic data for faculty in CS & CE in North America.
The Taulbee Survey is the principal source of information on the enrollment, production, and employment of Ph.D.s in computer science and computer engineering (CS & CE) and in providing salary and demographic data for faculty in CS & CE in North America.
The ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest
A multi-tier, team-based, programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University.
A multi-tier, team-based, programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University.
University Pathway to IT and Computing Careers
Part of Counselors for Computing, this card connects students' interests with IT and computing career paths that can be achieved through enrollment in a university or four-year college. Degree programs are linked to job titles, projected growth, and wages. Counselors for Computing (C4C) is a project of the NCWIT K-12 Alliance, made possible by the Merck Company Foundation.
Part of Counselors for Computing, this card connects students' interests with IT and computing career paths that can be achieved through enrollment in a university or four-year college. Degree programs are linked to job titles, projected growth, and wages. Counselors for Computing (C4C) is a project of the NCWIT K-12 Alliance, made possible by the Merck Company Foundation.
Video of Richard Tapia’s National Medal of Science Award
Rice University Professor Richard Tapia was recently awarded the 2010 National Medal of Science, the highest national honor for a U.S. scientist. He is recognized for his pioneering and fundamental contributions in optimization theory and numerical analysis and for his dedication and sustained efforts in fostering diversity and excellence in computational mathematics and science education. The son of Mexican immigrants, Tapia grew up in Los Angeles and was the first member of his family to attend college. He excelled in math and science and went on to earn international acclaim for his research in computational mathematics, and that success led to his election to the National Academy of Engineering. Tapia has authored or co-authored two books and more than 100 computational mathematical research papers, and he is currently authoring a graduate-level textbook on the foundations of optimization.
Rice University Professor Richard Tapia was recently awarded the 2010 National Medal of Science, the highest national honor for a U.S. scientist. He is recognized for his pioneering and fundamental contributions in optimization theory and numerical analysis and for his dedication and sustained efforts in fostering diversity and excellence in computational mathematics and science education. The son of Mexican immigrants, Tapia grew up in Los Angeles and was the first member of his family to attend college. He excelled in math and science and went on to earn international acclaim for his research in computational mathematics, and that success led to his election to the National Academy of Engineering. Tapia has authored or co-authored two books and more than 100 computational mathematical research papers, and he is currently authoring a graduate-level textbook on the foundations of optimization.
Volunteer with the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
Volunteer with a local or national Aspirations in Computing program. Volunteering to work with these talented young women is very rewarding and the time commitment is flexible. Both women and men are encouraged to participate - it takes all of us to make change! You can review applications, join a Local Affiliate Award Program committee, share your experiences as a technical professional by serving as a speaker at a local event, or host an Affiliate Award if there isn’t one in your community.
Volunteer with a local or national Aspirations in Computing program. Volunteering to work with these talented young women is very rewarding and the time commitment is flexible. Both women and men are encouraged to participate - it takes all of us to make change! You can review applications, join a Local Affiliate Award Program committee, share your experiences as a technical professional by serving as a speaker at a local event, or host an Affiliate Award if there isn’t one in your community.
White House Science Fair
President Obama speaks about the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education to the country’s economic future after viewing exhibits from science fair winners from across the country.
President Obama speaks about the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education to the country’s economic future after viewing exhibits from science fair winners from across the country.
Why Should Young People Consider Careers in Information Technology
Created as talking points for Counselors for Computing (C4C), a project of the NCWIT K-12 Alliance made possible by the Merck Company Foundation, this card gives adults talking points and additional resources for a conversation with their students, children, and/or other young people. The main message is that IT offers meaningful work, security and high salaries with a bachelor’s degree, and flexibility and variety. Information is provided to address these specific questions: What should you tell a young person about a career in IT? How can a young person prepare now for a career in IT?
Created as talking points for Counselors for Computing (C4C), a project of the NCWIT K-12 Alliance made possible by the Merck Company Foundation, this card gives adults talking points and additional resources for a conversation with their students, children, and/or other young people. The main message is that IT offers meaningful work, security and high salaries with a bachelor’s degree, and flexibility and variety. Information is provided to address these specific questions: What should you tell a young person about a career in IT? How can a young person prepare now for a career in IT?
Why So Few?
In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? A new research report by AAUW presents compelling evidence that can help to explain this puzzle.
In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? A new research report by AAUW presents compelling evidence that can help to explain this puzzle.
Windows Phone 7 Sensors and XNA
Created for faculty members in higher education who have worked with XNA and are interested in including Windows Phone 7 (WP7) as part of their courses or research programs. The tutorials are designed to illustrate the details of working with the Wp7 sensors.
Created for faculty members in higher education who have worked with XNA and are interested in including Windows Phone 7 (WP7) as part of their courses or research programs. The tutorials are designed to illustrate the details of working with the Wp7 sensors.
