The significant expense of modern college textbooks limits availability to those who can afford them. As computational thinking and programming increasingly become desired skills, the computing community needs low-cost curricular materials to make computing courses available to all students. Online curricular materials are readily available for introductory programming courses. However, such resources for later computing courses do not exist. To address this need, we developed Dive into Systems, a free, online textbook for teaching introductory computer systems topics. Recently, we received an NSF grant to augment Dive into Systems with dynamic visualizations, interactive exercises, and worked examples making it a complete textbook with online resources that will include exercises for students and supplemental resources for instructors.

The goal of the event is to share our current progress on interactive tool development with the Computer Science Education community, discuss issues that students face in learning introductory systems topics, brainstorm interactive materials that could help instructors address those needs, and recruit exercise developers for year 1 of our project. The Dive into Systems project has the potential to help the field of computing become more equitable by developing a high-quality, free, online textbook that can be used by college students anywhere. Learn more at https://diveintosystems.org.