Author: Brett

As announced a few weeks ago at ITiCSE 2020, CompEd 2021 has been approved to be hosted by IIIT Hyderabad, India in December 2021. We will have more news soon, including a new website and of course, information pertaining to the pandemic situation. As of now, given the fact that the conference is 1.5 years away, we are keeping our options open (while keeping likely realities in mind). Definitive decisions will be announced well in advance.

At CompEd 2019 in Chengdu, China, Susan Rodger’s sister Cole (Sandra) Rodger, kindly volunteered to be the CompEd photographer. We are all very appreciative of her for doing this and providing all of her great professional photos free of charge. The images are available at https://www2.cs.duke.edu/csed/comped19/

Congratulations to the authors of the following outstanding contributions!

The CompEd 2019 Best Paper Award went to An Exploration of Cognitive Shifting in Writing Code by Ilenia Fronza, Arto Hellas, Petri Ihantola, and Tommi Mikkonen.

The CompEd 2019 Chairs’ Award for the best paper with a student as lead author went to Impact of Open-Ended Assignments on Student Self-Efficacy in CS1 by Sadia Sharmin, Daniel Zingaro, Lisa Zhang, and Clare Brett.

Congratulations to all!

CompEd full-text proceedings have been published on the ACM Digital Library.

CompEd is happy to be hosting the Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) Project – Steering Committee Meeting prior to CompEd 2019. More details are available here: https://www.acmcomped.org/pre-conference-events/.

Exactly one week from now, CompEd attendees will be in Chengdu hanging out with baby Pandas! Until then, here is the final conference program.

The CompEd proceedings metadata including abstracts are now on the ACM Digital Library. PDFs of papers will follow soon.

CompEd is only 10 days away, and the first official event (other than Working Groups) is the excursion! Is this the first SIGCSE conference to feature baby pandas in any way? Details here: https://www.acmcomped.org/attendees/#excursion

CompEd is proud to be supporting a pre-conference workshop “Building an ACM-W East Asia Community”. Details and signup form are here.

Workshop Convener: Catherine Lang

ACM-W is a community within ACM whose mission is to support, celebrate, and advocate internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field.  ACM-W realizes this mission by providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women.  The purpose of this interactive workshop is to familiarize attendees with the activities of ACM-W and to promote increased program activity in the countries of East Asia. The presenters will provide examples of successful efforts in regions such as Europe, Australia, and North America. The objective of the two workshops are to establish a development plan and a core group of participants willing to work together to start similar programs as the foundation members of ACM-W East Asia.