This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM India Compute Conference on COMPUTE 2024, held in Gandhinagar, India, during December 5-7, 2024. The 12 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: India-specific Computing Education Research Issues; Assessment and Evaluation; Interactive Tools, Visualizations and Learning Analytics; and Beyond CS1: Computing Education Research in Upper Level Courses.