Keeping students interested in Computer Science

Hello! First I’d like to take this time to introduce myself. My name is Clayton Shier and am currently completing Grade 11. I love computer science and anything to do with it. I’ve been an active poster on the CompSci.ca forums for a while now, and I’ve asked Tony to allow me to contribute to [...]

Teaching creativity: Do schools today kill creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson, an education guru, has given an entertaining, yet moving talk at TED conference last year. Reexamining the nature of our education system, Ken focuses on the role of creativity in schools.

My contention is that creativity now is as important, in education, as literacy. And we should treat it with the same status.

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Earning real world programming experience with the Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code 2007 is on, and are now accepting student applications for the program. What exactly is GSoC? Chris DiBona explains:

Last year we paid 630 students from 450 schools in 90 countries $4,500 each to work on open source software projects. These projects, selected by some 100 open source mentoring organizations from over [...]