Taste of Computing

The goal of this project is to improve and expand computer science (CS) education at the high school level throughout the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The focus is the creation of a high-quality CS course that will serve primarily as the introductory course for all tracks of the three-year CPS Career and Technology Education InfoTech (CTE InfoTech ) program offered at 32 high schools. The course is likely to be offered also as a Mathematics elective and will be a great preparatory course for the new AP Computer Science Principles (APCS) being developed. The course will adapt and extend the successful Exploring Computer Science (ECS) curriculum originally developed for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Project Website: http://tasteofcomputing.org

Principal Investigator: Lucia Dettori, DePaul University