{"id":16884,"date":"2011-03-22T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=16884"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:55:37","slug":"great-resourcesreflections-from-joel-adams-cs-professor-at-calvin-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/03\/22\/great-resourcesreflections-from-joel-adams-cs-professor-at-calvin-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Great resources\/reflections from Joel Adams, CS Professor at Calvin College"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Based upon an earlier posting that I had sent to him, <strong>below are some great resources and reflections per Joel Adams, Professor and Department Chair of Computer Science at Calvin College<\/strong> (in Grand Rapids, MI, USA; by the way, Joel was the originator of the <em>Computer Science Week<\/em> legislation in the United States). Joel lists some of the misperceptions out there concerning Computer Science\/Scientists:<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I think there is a misperception out there that computer science grads  spend all their time in a cubicle, staring at a computer screen, which is not an  attractive way to spend your life.  What we need are images that show computing  professionals in software design meetings, client meetings, pair programming,  and other situations where they are interacting with people.<\/p>\n<p>Another misperception is that computer science is for geeks\/nerds.  It  seems like somehow that &#8220;pocket protector&#8221; stereotype that used to be for  engineers has shifted to computer scientists.  Images of people like Marissa  Mayer, Steve Jobs,  etc. could help dispel this:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fX5UNiVPRBU&amp;feature=fvwrel\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fX5UNiVPRBU&amp;feature=fvwrel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A final [misperception] is that it is only for guys.  We need images of female computer  scientists to dispel this, including Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, the women who worked on ENIAC, as well as more modern women like Marissa Mayer and the women mentioned in this  article:<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/features\/15_most_important_women_tech_history\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/features\/15_most_important_women_tech_history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/features\/15_most_important_women_tech_history\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/files\/u112496\/eniac_5_0.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ladies\" width=\"620\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/features\/15_most_important_women_tech_history\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/files\/u112496\/holberton_sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also Joel mentioned\/see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adele Goldberg,<\/strong> one of the graphical user  interface project leaders at Xerox PARC:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adele_Goldberg_%28computer_scientist%29\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scientist)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Based upon an earlier posting that I had sent to him, below are some great resources and reflections per Joel Adams, Professor and Department Chair of Computer Science at Calvin College (in Grand Rapids, MI, USA; by the way, Joel was the originator of the Computer Science Week legislation in the United States). 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