WCCCE 2016 - The 21st Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education

May 6-7, 2016

Thompson Rivers University (TRU), Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada


CONFERENCE

The 21st Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE 2016), in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), is a forum for discussing the development of computing programs and curricula and for sharing innovative strategies and tools for teaching and learning in fields such as computer science, computer technology, information systems and information technology.

The conference strives to bring together university and college educators, as well as industry and government representatives who have an interest in computing science education. It is designed for all educators who are involved in the evolution of computing science education.

All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings to be included in the ACM Digital Library.

* Keynote Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia, Teaching Professor, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/garcia.html

* Keynote Speaker 2: Rick Sutcliffe, Professor, Computing Science and Mathematics, Trinity Western University, Canada
http://twu.ca/directory/faculty/richard-sutcliffe.html


* WCCCE-2016 would like to thank the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) for providing support for DANIEL GARCIA to present his paper "Transforming High School Computer Science: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)" on May 6, 2016. Daniel Garcia has presented this talk and workshops at the "TAPIA conference" (ACM) in 2014. Link to the ACM SIGCSE membership page: http://sigcse.org/sigcse/membership/


OUR SPONSORS

GOLDEN

TRU FACULTY OF SCIENCE
TRU IT SERVICES

SILVER

WESTERN CANADIAN COMPUTING EDUCATION SOCIETY (WCCES)
BC LOTTERY CORPORATION
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BRONZE

DR. PREETY DESAI
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PEARSON CANADA


IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission deadline: February 23, 2016
Notification of acceptance: March 18, 2016
Camera-ready version due: April 8, 2016
Last date for registration: May 7, 2016