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Table of Contents

• Awesome CS Education
• Blogs
• Organizations and non profits
  • General
  • Regional
• online Communities
  • Popular sites
  • Mailing Lists
  • Facebook
• Online tools and IDEs
  • Repls
  • Online problem sites
• Curricula and support services
• Computer Science Competitions for K12
  • online / at local schools
  • Regional
• Regional Professional Development
• Online Professional Development
• Interesting talks / presentations / videos etc.
• Language Specific links
  • Java
  • Python
• Course / Level specific links
  • Intro (including APCS-P)
  • Intermediate (include APCS-A or first year college)
  • Advanced
• Other CS Ed related awesome sites
• License

Blogs

Blog	Author	Notes
Bits and Behaviour	Amy Ko
Computer Science Teacher	Alfred Thompson
C’est la Z	Mike Zamansky
Geeky Mom Blog	Laura Blankenship
Coding in Math Class	Dawn DuPriest
Computing Education Blog	Mark Guzdial
Garth’s CS Education Blog	Garth Flint
https://cszero.wordpress.com/	Brett Becker
https://sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/acbart-eportfolio/blog	Austin Bart
https://blog.emiliebarnard.com/	Emilie Barnard
https://medium.com/@colleenlewis	Colleen Lewis
http://blogs.whitman.edu/countingfromzero/	Janet Davis
https://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/musings/	Sam Rebelsky
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/	Eugene Wallingford
https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm
http://gflint.wordpress.com/	Garth Flint
http://blog.acthompson.net	Alfred Thompson
http://innovativeteacher.org	Doug Bergman
https://cszero.wordpress.com/other/ is a meta list

Organizations and non profits

General

Site	Description
code.org	online ide, curricula, outreach materials and more
CSTeachers.org	CSTA - Computer Science Teachers Association (ACM subgroup)
ACM	Association for Computing Machinery

Regional

Site	Description
CS For All in SF	curricula, resources, research and more
CS4Alll New Mexico	curricula, resources, research and more
CSNYC	CS4All NYC

online Communities

Popular sites

• Computer Science Educators StackExcahnge
• CS Education subreddit

Mailing Lists

• SIGCSE Mailing Lists
• APCSA - need join link

Facebook

• CS Education Discussion
• CS Education Researchers and Practitioners
• AP CS Teachers
• APCSP Teachers
• CSTA

Online tools and IDEs

Repls

Site	Description
CodeHS	Multi language support, classroom support, curriculum and online community
Codesters	Python REPL with curriculum and online community
Repl.it	Multi language support and classroom support

Online problem sites

Site	Description
Coding Bat	Python and Java, classroom grading support and make your own questions
CodeHS	Python, Java, JavaScript, classroom grading support and make your own questions and graders, with shared repository of teacher created problems
code step by step	Code Step By Step
C Puzzles	Short algorithmic challenges to solve in C
Exercism	Download and solve practice problems in over 30 different languages. Submit them to the community for review.
Regex Crossword	Learn regular expressions through crossword puzzles

Curricula and support services

Site	Description
CodeHS	6-12 Curriculum (JS, Python, AP Java, AP CSP and more), curriculum tools, PD, and classroom management tools and resources
TEALS	Partner with a Software Engineer to bring CS to your school
Codesters	Python based tools and curricula
Bootstrapworld	Functional programming either standalone CS or integrated into other subjects

Computer Science Competitions for K12

online / at local schools

Competition	Notes
USACO	individual. independent of school, training materials available
ACSL	In school, individual, team

Regional

Regional Professional Development

Link	Description	Location	time of year

Online Professional Development

Professional development courses geared for teachers to help teach computer science.

Name

Description

CodeHS

CodeHS offers many online professional development courses for teachers looking to learn how to teach computer science classes. In several states, you can get official credit/approvals by completing one of the courses. Courses include: Teaching Intro to Computer Science, Teaching AP Computer Science Principles, Teaching AP Computer Science in Java, Teaching Computing Ideas, Teaching Intro Python, Teaching Web Design. The courses are approximately 30-40 hour online courses with personalized grading.

Interesting talks / presentations / videos etc.

(inclusion in this section does not imply endorsement views by the curators of this site but all listed links are considered worth a visit)

• Andy Ko’s talk in teaching computer science

Language Specific links

Java

Python

• Awesome Python in Education - A curated list about Python in Education
• Non-trivial Python Exercises

Course / Level specific links

Intro (including APCS-P)

• CS50 AP - Harvard University’s adaptation of CS50 for AP Computer Science Principles

Intermediate (include APCS-A or first year college)

Advanced

• Nand2Tetris - Nand2Tetris is textbook/course in computer architecture from logic gates up through virtual machines and compilers

Other CS Ed related awesome sites

• Awesome - a list of awesome lists
• Awesome CS - many Awesome CS topic and language links

License

To the extent possible under law, Mike Zamansky has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.