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The author offers advice on how to reduce the wait time for college students seeking to meet with their computer science advisors. Topics covered include peer instruction, classroom environments, and pair programming methods of instruction.

The article discusses the opportunity costs of choosing to become a computer science (CS) teacher in the U.S. in relation to salaries. Topics include the recruitment of people with Ph.D.'s in computer science into industry jobs rather than higher education, the lack of available class in CS when faculty shortages exist, and the report "Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments" by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

The article discuses the initiative Computer Science for All announced by U.S. President Barack Obama that aims to give every student an opportunity to learn computer science. Topics tackled are the proposals of leaders of the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance, the challenges to computer science education in states and territories including funding and the growing number of teachers, and the need for programs to broaden participation in computing.

The article explores the impact of the variety of learning outcomes and definitions on the teaching of computer science in the U.S. The author reflects on his experience dealing with the problem caused by many different learning outcomes while teaching computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He also discusses the adoption of "Exploring CS" and "Advanced Placement in Computer Science Principles," two computer science courses for high schools being promoted by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The author suggests for computer science (CS) education to focus on adults before teaching it to children. Topics discussed include Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) past president Vint Cerf's testimony before the U.S. Senate on the need for more CS education, the University of California at Los Angeles' (UCLA) working paper "The Revolving Door: CS for All and the Challenge of Teacher Retention" on the challenges of getting more schools and CS teachers and results of Lijun Ni's study on CS teacher identity.

A reprint of the article "The Danger of Requiring Computer Science in K-12 Schools," which appeared as a blog post on "Communications" magazine's website at http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm, is presented. Topics discussed include the ramifications of making computer science (CS) a required subject for U.S. schoolchildren, insufficient number of CS teachers, and concerns about a higher CS standard's impact on special education students. Requiring CS courses in higher education is also cited.

The article presents two blog posts from the website of the Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), http://cacm.acm.org/, which discuss technology transfer, training high school computer science (CS) teachers, and the relationship between research and product development.