Publications

This is list of publications relevant to this project

Project Summaries

• oDREAMS (NSF ITEST Scale-up): (Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers) Scale-Up, NSF program, one page summary
• CT4TC (NSF CE21 Type II): Computer Science Education for the 21 Century, NSF program, one page summary
• iDREAMS (NSF ITEST): Project Summary with Results This is the NSF project that started the Scalable Game Design project.

Reports

• Kea Anderson Vogt, Julie Remold, and Caroline E. Parker, STEM Learning Games and Game Design in ITEST Projects, Stelar STEM Learning and Research Center, Report to the National Science Foundation, 2016.
• K-12 Computer Science Framework, (2016). Retrieved from http://www.k12cs.org.
• Women Who Choose Computer Science— What Really Matters The Critical Role of Encouragement and Exposure, Google Report, May 26, 2014.
• Informatics education: Europe cannot afford to miss the boat, Report of the joint Informatics Europe & ACM Europe Working Group on Informatics Education April 2013
• Learning Science Through Computer Games and Simulations, National Academies of Science, 2011 (summary: "There is moderate evidence that simulations motivate students’ interest in science and science learning, and less evidence about whether they support other science learning goals.")
• Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World, U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, 2013
• 2010 Horizon Report - K-12 Edition: Describes emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact on K-12 education. Lists the Scalable Game Design project as an example of how game-based learning is being used in schools.
• Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge. A 21st Century Agenda for the National Science Foundation, June 2008 lists AgentSheets as successful cyberinfrastructure in the category of Visual programming languages designed for children.
• PITAC Report, Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness, Report to the President of the United States, 2005. The ability to create models is essential to computational science. AgentSheets is a unique tool that can be used to build games and computational science models.
• Committee on Information Technology Literacy: Lawrence Snyder, A.V.A., Marcia Linn, Arnold Packer, Allen Tucker, Jeffrey Ullman, Andries Van Dam Being Fluent with Information Technology. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1999. We have mapped the three levels of fluency (Intellectual capabilities, Fundamental concepts, and Contemporary skills) to game design.

Research

2019

• Repenning, A., Lamprou, A., Petralito, S., & Basawapatna, A. (2019). Mandatory pre-service teacher Computer Science Education: Exploring a demographic shift in Switzerland. Paper presented at the Innovation and Technology in computer Science Education, (ITiCSE’19), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
• A. Basawapatna, A. Repenning, and M. Savignano, "The Zones of Proximal Flow Tutorial: Designing Computational Thinking Cliffhangers," presented at the Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2019, 428-434.
• Repenning, A., Lamprou, A., & Wigger, P. (2019). The Rise of the Digital Polymath: Switzerland Is Crossing the Computer Science Education Chasm Through Mandatory Elementary Pre-Service Teacher Education. In J. Keengwe & P. Wachira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Integrating Computer Science and Computational Thinking in K-12 Education (Vol. 1, pp. 191-219): IGI Global.

2018

• A. Repenning, "Scale or Fail: Moving beyond self-selected computer science education in Switzerland," Communications of the ACM (CACM), vol. 61, pp. 40-42, May 2018.

• A. Repenning, A. Lamprou, N. Fahrni, and N. Escherle, "Scalable Game Design Switzerland," Medienpädagogik und Didaktik der Informatik. Eine Momentaufnahme disziplinärer Bezüge und schulpraktischer Entwicklungen, pp. 27-52, 2018.

• A. Basawapatna, A. Repenning, M. Savignano, J. Manera, N. Escherle, and L. Repenning, "Is Drawing Video Game Characters in an Hour of Code Activity a Waste of Time?," presented at the the 23rd Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2018), Larnaca, Cyprus, 2018.

• A. Lamprou and A. Repenning, "Teaching how to teach Computational Thinking," presented at the the 23rd Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2018), Larnaca, Cyprus, 2018.

• A. Repenning, "Die Schweiz auf der digitalen Überholspur," in Swiss Science Council, ed. Swiss Science Council, 2018.

2017

• A. Repenning, "Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets," Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems, vol. 3, p. 24, 2017.

• Hug, D., Petralito, S., Hauser, S., Lamprou, A., Repenning, A., Bertschinger, D., Stüber, N., Cslovjecsek, M.: Exploring Computational Music Thinking in a Workshop Setting with Primary and Secondary School Children, In: Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2017 - 12th Conference on Interaction with Sound, London, UK, 2017

• C. Brand and A. Repenning, "Helping Teachers and Students learn to use 3D in Agentcubes online," presented at the 2017 IEEE Blocks and Beyond Workshop (B B 2), Raleigh, NC, USA, 2017, 103-104.

• Repenning A., Basawapatna A.R., and E. N.A., "Principles of Computational Thinking Tools," in Emerging Research, Practice, and Policy on Computational Thinking. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations, H. C. Rich P., Ed., ed: Springer, Cham, 2017, pp. pp 291-305.

• A. Lamprou, A. Repenning, and N. A. Escherle, "The Solothurn Project — Bringing Computer Science Education to Primary Schools in Switzerland," presented at the 22nd Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2017), Bologna, Italy, 2017.

• A. Basawapatna and A. Repenning, "Employing Retention of Flow to Improve Online Tutorials," Special Interest Group of Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2017), Seattle, Washington, USA, 2017. nominated for Best Paper award: selected as Exemplary Computer Science Education Research paper (30% acceptance rate)

2016

• A. Repenning, "Smart Education durch Computational Thinking in der Primarschule," in Smart City: Strategie, Governance und Projekte, A. Meier and E. Portmann, Eds., ed: Springer Vieweg, 2016, pp. 201-219.
• A. Repenning, "Transforming “Hard and Boring” into “Accessible and Exciting”," presented at the NordiCHI 2016, Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: From “Have to” to “Want to” Participate, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2016.
• A. Repenning and A. Basawapatna, "Drops and Kinks: Modeling the Retention of Flow for Hour of Code Style Tutorials," presented at the The 11th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE 2016), Münster, Germany, 2016.
• Hug, D., Stüber, N., Repenning, A., Cslovjecsek, M., Hauser, S., Agotai, D., Miyazaki, S., Escherle, N., Assaf, D.: Computational Music Thinking - Using End-User Programming to Explore Musical Creation in an STEAM-oriented Integrated Music Education Setting. In: Proceedings of ISME 2016, Glasgow, UK, 2016
• A. Repenning, "Computational Thinking für alle! Scalable Game Design als Einstieg in Computational Thinking," OCG Journal, Das IT-Magazin der Österreichischen Computer Gesellschaft, vol. 41, 2016.

• A. Repenning, A. Basawapatna, and N. Escherle, "Computational Thinking Tools," presented at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, Cambridge, UK, 2016. 30% acceptance rate
• Repenning, A., Basawapatna, A., Assaf, D., Maiello, C., and Escherle, N., "Retention of Flow: Evaluating a Computer Science Education Week Activity" to be presented at the Special Interest Group of Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2016), Memphis, Tennessee, 2016.
• Escherle, N., Ramirez-Ramirez, S., Basawapatna, A., Assaf, D., Repenning, A., Maiello, C., Endo, Y., and Nolazco-Florez, J., Piloting Computer Science Education Week in Mexico to be presented at the Special Interest Group of Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2016), Memphis, Tennessee, 2016.
• Nickerson, H., Bush, J., and Endo, Y, C. "We Have Questions: Pedagogical, Technical, and Procedural Assistance Requests in a Large Computational Thinking Curriculum Research Project", poster to be presented at the Special Interest Group of Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2016), Memphis, Tennessee, 2016.

2015

• Escherle, N., Assaf, D., Basawapatna, A., Maiello, C., and Repenning, A., " Launching Swiss Computer Science Education Week," presented at the Proceedings of the 10th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WIPSCE), London, U.K., 2015, 11-16.
• Worrell, B., Brand, C., and Repenning, A. Collaboration and Computational Thinking: A Classroom Structure, presented at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, (VL/HCC 2015), Atlanta, Georgia, 2015.
• A. R. Basawapatna, A. Repenning, and K. H. Koh, "Closing The Cyberlearning Loop: Enabling Teachers to Formatively Assess Student Programming Projects," presented at the Special Interest Group of Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2015), Kansas City, Missouri, 2015.
• Nickerson, H., Brand, C., and Repenning, A. Grounding Computational Thinking Skill Acquisition Through Contextualized Instruction. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER 2015, August 9-13, Omaha, Nebraska, USA), 207-216. New York: ACM Press.
• Repenning, A., Webb, D. C., Koh, K. H., Nickerson H., Miller, S. B., Brand, C., et al., "Scalable Game Design: A Strategy to Bring Systemic Computer Science Education to Schools through Game Design and Simulation Creation," Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), vol. 15, pp. 1-31, 2015.
• Webb, D. C. and Miller, S. B.. (2015, April). Gender Analysis of a Large Scale Survey of Middle Grades Students' Conceptions of Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of GenderIT'15. Philadelphia, PA.
• Miller, S. B. and Webb, D. C.. (2015, April). Game Design: Whose game works at the end of the day? In Proceedings of GenderIT'15. Philadelphia, PA.
• Miller, S. B. (2015) “Teachers Conceptions on Computational Thinking”, American Educational Research Association Conference
• Endo, Y., Chic@s Code, A Joint U.S. – Mexico CSEdWeek Project, Computer Science Teaching Association (CSTA) the Voice, November, Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 2-3, 2015

2014

• Webb, D. C., Miller, S. B., Nickerson, H., Grover, R., and Gutiérrez, K. (2014). Student Centered Observation Protocol for computer-science Education (SCOPE). Boulder, CO: University of Colorado - Boulder.
• Koh, K.H., Basawapatna, A., Nickerson, H., Repenning, A. "Real Time Assessment of Computational Thinking", In Proceedings of VL/HCC ‘14, IEEE Computer, Melbourne, Australia, 2014, 49-52.
• Koh, K.H., Nickerson, H., Basawapatna, A., and Repenning, A., "Early validation of Computational Thinking Pattern Analysis", Proceedings of ITICSE’ 14, ACM Press, Uppsala, Sweden, 2014.
• Basawapatna, A., Repenning, A., Koh, K. H., and Savignano, M., The Consume-Create Spectrum: Balancing Convenience and Computational Thinking in STEM Learning," presented at the Special Interest Group of Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '14), Atlanta, GA, USA., 2014.
• Repenning, A., Webb, D. C., Brand, C., Gluck, F., Grover, R., Miller, S., et al., Beyond Minecraft: Facilitating Computational Thinking through Modeling and Programming in 3D," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 34, pp. 68-71, May-June 2014.
• Repenning, A., Scalable Game Design: Broadening Participation by Integrating Game Design and Science Simulation Building into Middle School Curricula, Future Directions in Computing Education, Summit Meeting, Orlando, Florida, January 8-9, 2014.

2013

• Repenning, A. Conversational programming: exploring interactive program analysis. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming & software (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 2013). ACM, 63-74.

• Repenning, A., Basawapatna, A. and Klymkowsky, M. Making Educational Games That Work in The Classroom. In Proceedings of the IEEE Games Innovation conference (IGIC 2013) (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 23-25, 2013). ACM Press,

• Repenning, A. Conversational Programming, In Proceedings of the Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH/Onward! 2013) (Indianapolis, Indiana, 2013). ACM Press.

• Basawapatna, A. R., Repenning, A., Koh, K. H., Nickerson, H. The Zones of Proximal Flow: Guiding Students Through a Space of Computational Thinking Skills and Challenges. In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual International ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 67-74, (ICER 2013, August 12-14, San Diego, California, USA). ACM Press: New York.

• Repenning, A., "Making Programming Accessible and Exciting", Computer, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 78-81, June 2013, doi:10.1109/MC.2013.214

• Repenning, A., From Games to STEM: A Sustainable Path to Broaden Participation, Computer Science Teaching Association (CSTA) the Voice, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 6, July 2013.

• Bennett, V., Koh, K. H., Repenning, A., Computing Creativity: Divergence in Computational Thinking, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference, (SIGCSE 2013), March 6-9, 2013, Denver, Colorado, USA.

• Koh, K. H., Repenning, A., Nickerson, H., Endo, Y., Motter, P., Will it Stick? Exploring the Sustainability of Computational Thinking Education Through Game Design, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference, (SIGCSE 2013), March 6-9, 2013, Denver, Colorado, USA.

• Basawapatna, A. and Repenning, A. The Simulation Creation Toolkit: An Initial Exploration Into Making Programming Accessible While Preserving Computational Thinking. In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference, (SIGCSE 2013) (Denver, Colorado, USA, March 6-9, 2013 (to appear)). ACM Press, New York, NY,

2012

• Repenning, A., Programming goes back to school, Communications of the ACM (May 2012), 55, 5, pp. 38-40, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA.

• Webb, D., Repenning, A. and Koh, K. Toward an Emergent Theory of Broadening Participation in Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference, (SIGCSE 2012) (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA., February 29 - March 3, 2012). ACM, 173-178.

• Repenning, A., Smith, C., Owen B., Repenning, N., Agentcubes: Enabling 3D Creativity by Addressing Cognitive and Affective Programming Challenges, World Conference on Educational Media and Technology, EdMedia 2012, June 26-29, 20122, Denver, Colorado, USA.

• Ahmadi, N., Jazayeri, M. and Repenning, A. Engineering an Open-Web Educational Game Design Environment. In Proceedings of the The 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'12) (Hong Kong, December 4-7, 2012). ACM.

• Ahmadi, N., Jazayeri, M. and Repenning, A. Performance evaluation of user-created open-web games. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Trento, Italy, 2012). ACM, 730-732.

2011

• Koh, K. H., Bennett, V., Repenning, A., Computing Indicators of Creativity, ACM Creativity & Cognition 2011, The High Museum of Art · Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 3-6, 2011
• Bennett, V., Koh, K. H., Repenning, A. COMPUTING LEARNING ACQUISITION?, IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2011, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 18-22, 2011
• Bennett, V., Koh, K. H., Repenning, A., CS Education Re-Kindles Creativity in Public Schools , ITiCSE '11: Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Darmstadt, Germany, June 27-29, 2011
• Webb, D. C., & MacGillivary, H. (2011, April). Teachers' Conceptions of Computational Thinking: The impact of iDREAMS on teachers’ articulation of CT and related reasoning. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
• Repenning, A., Making Programming more Conversational, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC '11, (Pittsburgh, PA, USA Sept. 18-22, 2011), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA.
• Repenning, A., (Demonstration) Conversational Programming in Action, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC ’11, (Pittsburgh, PA, USA Sept. 18–22, 2011), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA.
• Repenning, A., Ahmadi, N., Repenning, N., Ioannidou, A., Webb, D., Marshall, K., Collective Programming: Making End-User Programming (more) Social, In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD), June 2011, Torre Canne, Italy, 325-330.
• Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Cleyton Slaviero, Higor Pinto, Alexander Repenning, Semiotic Traces of Computational Thinking Acquisition, In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD), June 2011, Torre Canne, Italy, 155-170.
• Ioannidou, A., Bennett, V., Repenning, A., Koh, K., Basawapatna, A., Computational Thinking Patterns. Paper presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in the symposium “Merging Human Creativity and the Power of Technology: Computational Thinking in the K-12 Classroom”, New Orleans, April 8-12, 2011
• Basawapatna, A., Koh, K. H., Repenning, A., Webb, D., Marshall, K., Recognizing Computational Thinking Patterns, SIGCSE 2011: Reaching Out The 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education March 9-12, 2011, Dallas, Texas, USA
• Marshall, K. S. (2011). Was that CT? Assessing computational thinking patterns through videobased prompts. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED518514.pdf
• N. Ahmadi, M. Jazayeri, and A. Repenning. Towards Democratizing Computer Science Education through Social Game Design. The First International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering (GAS'11), 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'11).

2010

• Repenning, A., Webb, D., Ioannidou, A., Scalable Game Design and the Development of a Checklist for Getting Computational Thinking into Public Schools, The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, (SIGCSE 2010), (Milwaukee, WI), ACM Press.
• Koh, K. H., Bennett, V., Repenning, A., Inspiring Collaborative Benefits: An Interaction between a Virtual and a Physical Group Learning Infrastructure, Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE 2010), Okanagan, B.C., Canada May 7-8, 2010
• Basawapatna, A., Koh, K. H., Repenning, A., Using Scalable Game Design To Teach Computer Science From Middle School to Graduate School, ITiCSE '10: Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-30, 2010
• Koh, K. H., Basawapatna, A.,Bennett, V., Repenning, A., Towards the Automatic Recognition of Computational Thinking, IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2010, Leganés-Madrid, Spain, September 21-25, 2010

2009

• Repenning, A., Basawapatna, A., and Koh, K. H. 2009. Making university education more like middle school computer club: facilitating the flow of inspiration. In Proceedings of the 14th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, May 01 - 02, 2009). This paper Deals with how we can incorporate desirable elements of middle school computer clubs, such as peer to peer interactions among students, into university programming classes using a cyberlearning infrastructure.

• A. Ioannidou, A. Repenning, and D. Webb, "AgentCubes: Incremental 3D End-User Development,". Journal of Visual Language and Computing, vol. 20, pp. 236-251, 2009

2008

• Repenning, A. and Ioannidou, Broadening Participation through Scalable Game Design, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference, (SIGCSE 2008), (Portland, Oregon USA), ACM Press.

2007

• Walter, S. E., Forssell, K., Barron, B., and Martin, C. 2007. Continuing motivation for game design. In CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 2735-2740. An article by the Stanford school of education. Main findings: Boys and girls rated their desire to continue with AgentSheets at comparable levels; Video game exposure was not related to students’ desire to continue with AgentSheets;

• Prof. Repenning's older publications

Brochures

• NCWIT case study showing AgentSheets to be a promising practice An National Center for Women & Information Technology Promising Practices handout featuring "Scalable Game Design for middle school"
• Computer Science Teaching Association (CSTA), AgentSheets for Computational Thinking in Computer Science
• AgentSheets Inc., Scalable Game Design framework and testimonials
• AgentSheets Inc., AgentSheets used as game design and computational science authoring tool

Press Releases

• "Educators learn to teach computer science through video games", June 16, 2015
• "Got an hour? CU-Boulder program lets you build a video game, learn to code", December 4, 2013 featured as University of Colorado Top Headline on the main page
• "Google and CU-Boulder partner to offer innovative computer teacher education workshop July 10-12 " Press Release about the Google Grant, May 16, 2013
• Press Releases for the new CE21 NSF Type II grant
  • Boulder Daily Camera, CU-Boulder's video game design program wins $1.5M grant
  • University of Colorado News, CU-Boulder nets $1.5 million NSF grant to continue video game design research
  • Boulder Channel 1, CU Boulder’s video game design research catches fire with students
• Press Release for the 2011 Summer Institute ( pdf | on CU's Outreach Web Site )
• A spotlight article by Barbara Darling for the CU School of Education
• Summer Institute 2010 and CS4HS press release, June 18, 2010
• IDREAMS project press release The NSF award press release, Oct. 23, 2008.
• AgentSheets Inc. award press release, Nov. 3, 2008

Press & TV and Radio Coverage

• Roger Wehrli, Denken mit dem Compuer Bildung Schweiz ,pp. 15-16, Oct. 11, 2018.
• Mark Schröder, Professoren sehen Hürden für die Digitalisierung, Computerworld, Switzerland, Oct. 2018.
• Martin Winkel, Motiviert: Wenn Kinder spielend lernen, macht das Lernen Spass, COOP Zeitung, Switzerland, March 28, 2017. (Switzerland weekly newspaper with the most readers: 1.8M).
• Lance Maggart, East Grand 6th graders study video game programming, Sky-Hi News, March 23, 2017.
• Marc Bodmer, Jeder sein eigener Software-Hersteller, NZZ Online, Dec. 12, 2016.
• David Iaconangelo, NES Classic Edition sells out: What old games can teach a new generation, The Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 13, 2016.
• Programmieren: Das ist kein Spiel, NZZ am Sonntag, Jochen Bettzieche, April 15, 2016.
• Thawing from a Long Winter in Computer Science Education, Forbes Magazine, Feb. 25, 2016.
• Rekordbeteiligung: 12'000 Kinder programmieren an Informatikwoche Aargauer Zeitung, Switzerland, Dec. 18, 2015
• In einem Tag vom Laien zum Gamedesigner, 20 Minuten, Switzerland, Dec. 12, 2015.
• Kinder fürs Programmieren begeistern an der FHNW Brugg, Swiss Radio News, Dec. 10, 2015.
• Ein Frosch rüstet Kinder für die digitalen Anforderungen der Zukunft Aargauer Zeitung, Switzerland, Dec. 10, 2015.
• Prog​ramm​ier​en als dritt​e Fremds​prac​he, Sonntagszeitung (European Newspaper of the Year), May 31, 2015.
• Gamers score at event, The Pueblo Chieftain, May 16, 2015
• CODING IN THE CLASSROOM — EMINTS ENHANCES EDUCATOR’S ABILITIES TO CONNECT, STEM Connection, Missouri Chamber Education Foundation, January 27, 2015
• Stanley Hotel's hedge maze contest inspires a thicket of ideas, Denver Post, Denver, Colorado, January 24, 2015.
• Local students learn about programming for "Hour of Code" initiative, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colorado, December 13, 2014.
• NYC Schools to Use Video Games to Teach Computer Coding Thalo Artist Community, July 29, 2014. (see also: University of Colorado News, Bowden Gaming, NW.com and many more).
• Colorado professor out to prove computer coding isn’t just a guy thing Colorado Public Radio (NPR), Colorado Matters, April 2, 2014, Centennial, Colorado, USA.
• Spielerisches Kombinieren – Kinder lernen Programmieren, Aargauische Zeitung, January 8, 2014
• U Colorado Boulder Tutorial Uses Video Games To Teach Coding, December 11, 2013
• Kids learn to make apps, video games quickly with ‘Hour of Code’ activities, FOX 31, Denver, Colorado, December 10, 2013
• Hour Of Code, Fred Wilson's blog with 250k followers (VC and principal of NYC based Union Square Ventures), December 10, 2013
• Colorado's Hour of Code, KGNU, Boulder, Colorado, December 10, 2013
• 'Hour of Code' project aims to make computer programming fun for kids, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colorado, December 9, 2013
• CU-Boulder researchers use video games to spark kids' interest in coding, University of Colorado, December, 9, 2013 Featured on main page
• Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding, Slashdot, December 7, 2013
• Got an Hour? CU-Boulder Program Lets You Build a Video Game, Learn to Code, HispanicBusiness.com, December 4, 2013
• "Got an hour? Program let's you build video game, learn to code" Denver iJournal, Dec. 4, 2013
• How Early Should Kids Learn To Code?, Slashdot, Sept 27, 2013
• Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code, WIRED Magazine, October, 2013
• Scalable Game Design AgentCubes demo, Cool Science Festival, KOAA, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Oct. 13, 2012
• Learning by Making: Teaching Game Design to Middle School Students, ASSETT, University of Colorado, Oct. 8, 2012.
• School earns $146K grant Video games used as learning tools, Colorado Daily, August 12, 2012 [article | video]
• CU-Boulder hoping to increase student interest in computing, Colorado Daily, June 5, 2012
• Programming — Now Starting In Elementary School, Slashdot, May 20, 2012
• Nostalgia Gaming: Frogger Helps Teach Kids Computer Science, NPR/KUNC story including video, May 10, 2012
• Jason Tomassini, Live From SXSW: Best Practices for Game-Design Curriculum, Education Week, March 13, 2012
• Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change,Slashdot, June 23, 2011
• Why Johnny can't program -- and how that can change, Infoworld, June 23, 2011
• Programming is Heading Back to School, Slashdot, June 14, 2011
• Teachers play video games for science, 9NEWS "Colorado's News Leader", June 12, 2011
• Teachers learn video game design, Boulder Business Report, June 10, 2011
• Message from the Chancellor, University of Colorado, June 2011
• Teachers learn video game design at institute promoting STEM education, University of Colorado Newsletter, Boulder, CO, June 8, 2011
• Programming 'Pac-Man:' Teachers learning video game design at CU-Boulder, Boulder Daily Camera, June 7, 2011
• Scalable Game Design Makes Math Class Fun!, University of Colorado outreach, 2011
• WWCC (Western Wyoming Community College), School Dist. No. 1 work to develop computer game programming curriculum, Rocket-Miner, Rock Springs, WY, February 15th, 2011
• EJHS students got game, Rocket-Miner, Rock Springs, WY, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010
• Teachers take on 'Frogger', computer programming at CU-Boulder, Boulder Daily Camera, June 26, 2010: press coverage of the CS4HS and Scalable Game Design initiative by the Daily Camera.
• Middle School teachers put their (video)game face on, Inside CU, The University of Colorado Faculty and Staff E-Newsletter, Tuesday, June 16, 2009
• CU program changing perceptions of computer science, Daily Camera, Boulder Colorado, Friday, June 12, 2009

Curricula

• Computer Science Curriculum 2008: An Interim Revision of CS 2001, Association for Computing Machinery & IEEE Computer Society

Blogs

• Jeffrey Jones, Gaming and Coding – a STEAM Experience, January 16, 2015
• Kathy Strickland about learning game design through storytelling, Oct. 16, 2012

See also

• Women in computing
• Advice on Research and Writing