Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Jens Gustedt is regularly blogging about efficient programming, in particular about the C programming language . He also is an active member of the stackoverflow community a technical Q&A site for programming and related subjects. A book about modern C is in preparation.

In collaboration with G. Oster, Coast team of Inria Nancy Grand-Est, M. Quinson develops a pedagogic platform . This tool aims at providing an environment that is both appealing for the student, easy to use for the teacher, and efficient for the learning process. Since 2014, an Inria ADT project aims at changing this practical tool into an experimental platform to study the didactic of programming.

M. Quinson is co-leading a working group on the teaching of computer science in the LORIA laboratory. He served both as a program chair and a local chair for a nation-wide two-days workshop gathering about hundred people involved in the introduction of computer science in the French secondary education: university lecturers in charge of teaching to the prospective CS teachers, regional heads of the Education minister accompanying this reform and producer of teaching resources. He also served both as a program chair and local chair for a regional gathering of CS teachers of the secondary wanting to exchange their good practices. This initiative, initiated in Nancy, will spread in several other French cities in 2015.

Either as a speaker or as a co-organizer, M. Quinson participated in several events that aim the popularization of computer science. These targeted a large variety of public, kids and pupils (Telecom Nancy in November), university students (Inria in March), mathematics teachers (APMEP Lorraine in March), CS teachers (SIF-ISN day in June), or the general public (Fête de la science in November).

S. Contassot-Vivier has participated to Loria animation days towards high-school visitors. In this context he has used the material and games co-designed by M. Quinson and others in the context of unplugged computer science teaching.