In February 2013, I wrote an article for Computing Now about computing education for the 21st Century and took a close look at how the IEEE Computer Society is doing with education-related content across its publications. To my delight, they’re doing exceptionally well!

My article focused on computing education for the 21st Century and how a renewed focus on computing education is needed to ensure that our discipline remains vibrant and relevant to all students, regardless of whether they are CS majors or not. After all, many undergraduates end up in a computer science-related job (e.g. information technology, programming, networking/security, etc.), often much sooner than expected.

This article appeared just before Mark Lewis, Konstantin Läufer, and I presented a tutorial at SIGCSE 2013 on the strategic use of Scala starting from CS1 (Introductory CS) and beyond.

I was particularly delighted that to see that my article was also made available in Spanish and Chinese. It’s so good to see one’s work reach a wider audience!