The Alice Project: A Different Way to Teach Introductory Computer Science
| April 10, 2008 |  View for printing |
The number of CS majors has declined by 50 percent in the last five years, despite the fact that the projected need for computer scientists continues to grow.
The goal of the Alice project is to provide a positive first experience with computer programming (currently the most common gateway to computer science), to middle school students through college freshman.
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