Principles of Programming using Javascript, in this Web 2.0 era

Title

Reinventing Programming Education in the Web 2.0 era

Abstract:

India is short of competent programmers. The current, 'bible'-book method of teaching programming must make way for an approach driven by concepts and applications. Today, there is an exciting opportunity to teach programming so that it not only emphasizes the principles of computing, but it also lets students easily build highly interactive web-driven applications based on those principles. This talk is about Janastu/IIITM-K, India's Principles of Programming course where students learn foundational concepts and then consciously apply them to build Web 2.0 applications.

Speaker Bio

Dinesh is the technical director of a non profit organization that develops open source software and provides IT support for various issue based work. Dinesh is also an associate at IIITM-K, Kerala, India where he works with Prof. Venkatesh Choppella on developing techniques to teach computer science that is relevant for today's need. One of the objectives of the course is that it should be enable learning on a large scale and that the material should be accessible for all.