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Evaluating a breadth-first cs 1 for scientists

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Evaluating a breadth-first cs 1 for scientists
This paper presents a thorough evaluation of CS for Scientists, a CS 1 course designed to provide future scientists with an overview of the discipline. The course takes a breadth-first approach that leverages its students' interest and experience in science, mathematics, and engineering. In contrast to many other styles of CS 1, this course does not presume that its students will study more computer science, but it does seek to prepare them should they choose to. We summarize the past year's worth of assessments of student learning, retention, and affect
Zachary Dodds, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Christine Alva
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where SIGCSE
Authors Zachary Dodds, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Christine Alvarado, Geoff Kuenning
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