Introductory programming courses have long had a reputation for being difficult, boring, and time consuming. Some people think that only certain types of people excel in programming. However, anyone can learn to program. Dr. Ericson has been applying principles from educational psychology to improve the teaching and learning of programming. Her focus is on increasing the use of active and social learning in programming education. Specifically she has created free and interactive ebooks, inquiry-based exercises for groups, a free tool to support Peer Instruction, and new types of practice problems. In Peer Instruction an instructor displays a hard multiple-choice question and students answer individually, then discuss the question with peers, and then answer again. The instructor then leads a discussion about the question. Dr. Ericson is investigating how introductory programming should change in the age of generative AI. This includes less emphasis on writing code and more emphasis on reading code, reasoning about code, testing code, and fixing code. The goal is to make programming easy, engaging, and useful.Reception to follow.