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ACMSE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a "humans-first" computer science curriculum
Traditionally, computer science education has considered “objects-first” or “imperative-first” approaches, with the focus of the course on teaching design of programs star...
D. Scott McCrickard, Charles J. Fowler, Christa M....
ITICSE
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Systematic testing should not be a topic in the computer science curriculum!
In this paper we argue that treating “testing” as an isolated topic is a wrong approach in computer science and software engineering teaching. Instead testing should pervade p...
Henrik Bærbak Christensen
CSREAEEE
2006
129views Business» more  CSREAEEE 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Computer Science Exercises in a Virtual University
Abstract--In distance teaching, direct feedback to the students is difficult to give, but crucial for their learning success. The system Asterix was developed in order to support t...
Manfred Widera, Barbara Messing, Gabriele Kern-Isb...
SIGADA
2001
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Teaching computer science with robotics using Ada/Mindstorms 2.0
We present one approach to teaching basic computer science concepts with robotics, using an Ada interface to Lego Mindstorms™ 1 . We show simple problems put to students with no...
Barry S. Fagin, Laurence D. Merkle, Thomas W. Egge...
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
141views Education» more  SIGCSE 2003»
14 years 26 days ago
Teaching objects-first in introductory computer science
An objects-first strategy for teaching introductory computer science courses is receiving increased attention from CS educators. In this paper, we discuss the challenge of the obj...
Stephen Cooper, Wanda Dann, Randy Pausch