CS educators teach programming. Generative AI tools can program. So we’re clearly wasting our time teaching CS to students in the AI era, right? There’s no need for junior programmers, enrollments are dropping, and we should all plan to be plumbers or apple farmers. Or perhaps there is a chance to use the AI crisis as an opportunity to do make some much-needed changes to our programs. For in computing education, as in so many other topics, AI is not an answer, it is only an accelerant. For topics with sound foundations, it’s a boon, reducing friction and toil. For topics with long-standing shortcomings, it’s adding fuel to the fire. In this talk I’ll give some industry perspective, identify what seems outdated in CS and SE pedagogy, and try to sketch out some more fruitful directions for revision to our assignments, classes, and overall curricula.

Sat 21 Feb

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08:30 - 10:00
Closing Plenary and KeynoteKeynotes at America's Ballroom (220 Complex)
08:30
30m
Talk
Closing RemarksIn-Person & Online
Keynotes
Timothy Yuen University of Texas at San Antonio, Deepti Joshi The Citadel, James Prather Abilene Christian University, Eric Fouh Duke University, Natalie Kiesler Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
09:00
60m
Keynote
CS and SE Education, post-AIIn-Person & Online
Keynotes