But what, exactly, would offering every student hands-on computer science look like?
Dan Garcia spends part of each day trying to answer that question. He’s a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and he’s working out ways to teach computer science to everyone.
He set up a makeshift studio in his home, next to his laundry room, and he uses it to webcast his massive open online course. He calls it “BJC,” short for “the Beauty and Joy of Computing.”
BJC was originally an undergraduate computer science course, one Garcia co-developed to teach the subject to non-majors. In the last five years, he’s given summer courses to more than 200 high school teachers across the country, helping them learn the same material.