Beauty And Joy Of Computing Teacher Guide

These are the teacher guides for the beauty and joy of computing for new york city project which is adapting uc berkeley s introductory computer science course as a high school ap cs principles course.

Beauty and joy of computing teacher guide. The beauty and joy of computing is taught across the country with over 600 teachers from 41 states applying to attend our teacher preparation workshops. Bjc was developed by the university of california berkeley and education development center inc. These are the teacher guides for the beauty and joy of computing for new york city project which is adapting uc berkeley s introductory computer science course as a high school ap cs principles course. Any opinions findings and conclusions or recommendations.

This is the static sept 2015 version. Teacher professional development has been a partnership with north carolina state university the new york city department of education and the new york city foundation for computer science education. It was one of the five initial pilot programs for the ap cs principles course being developed by the college board and the national science foundation. Teachers are also using our curriculum in canada ireland guam hong kong south korea indonesia senegal cape verde nepal austria italy new zealand the philippines and germany.

Bjc 12x on edx first half of the curriculum bjc 34x on edx second half of the curriculum managers. Is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial sharealike 4 0 international license. Beauty and joy of computing website. The development of this site is funded by the national science foundation under grant number 144 1075.

It cov ers the big ideas and computational thinking practices required in the ap csp curriculum framework and powerful computer science ideas like recursion and higher order functions. Welcome to the beauty and joy of computing teacher guide. The beauty and joy of computing is an endorsed ap computer science principles course that is a rigorous introduction to programming and that the ways we interact with and are affected by technology every day. The beauty and joy of computing bjc is an introductory computer science curriculum developed at the university of california berkeley intended for non cs majors at the high school junior through undergraduate freshman level.

Labs teacher s guide with pacing guide for access email us at contact bjc berkeley edu readings. The beauty and joy of computing by university of california berkeley and education development center inc.