[TOS] NYC high school for software engineering

[Algot Runeman]

On 01/23/2012 01:18 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
> Was reading the news today...
>
> http://gcn.com/Articles/2012/01/19/New-York-high-school-software-engineering.aspx?Page=1 
>
>
> Short version is that in "September New York City will open its first
> public high school dedicated to training kids in software development:
> The Academy for Software Engineering."
>
> I wonder how they plan on recruiting, how they plan on teaching, and 
> so on... the article reports that "the school was the brainchild of 
> Mike Zamansky, a teacher at Stuyvesant High School," so if anyone 
> knows more about this I'd be super-curious about it.
>
> Would they be interested in TOS? I know we have some folks from New 
> York colleges here who might be interested in enrolling graduates from 
> this sort of program, and wonder if starting high school students 
> early in the same (H?)FOSS projects as some nearby colleges could be a 
> nice opportunity for vertical learning, peer teaching, and involving 
> students in a community of practice that is real *and* also has 
> scaffolding to accommodate them.
>
> --Mel
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One can hope that the experience described in this article (specifically 
the AP section) isn't planned.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/how-i-failed-failed-and-finally-succeeded-at-learning-how-to-code/239855/?single_page=true

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