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FECS
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
Improving Student Motivation in a Computing Course for Non-Majors
- This paper focuses on introductory computer science courses offered to students not majoring in computer science. In particular, the issues of student motivation and engagement i...
Stan Kurkovsky
SIGADA
1997
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Transitioning to Ada in an Introductory Course for Non-Majors
All students attending the U.S. Air Force Academy are required to take an introductory course in computer science. Last year we transitioned to Ada in this course. In this paper w...
A. T. Chamillard, William C. Hobart Jr.
ITICSE
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A media computation course for non-majors
Computing may well become considered an essential part of a liberal education, but introductory programming courses will not look like the way that they do today. Current CS1 cour...
Mark Guzdial
SIGITE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Towards using online portfolios in computing courses
The direct experience we had with teaching a summer pre-college computing course in which we adopted an online portfolio approach has led us to consider the use of online portfoli...
Bryan Higgs, Mihaela Sabin
ICALT
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
New Approaches to Media-Supported Project Work at the University Level
We present experiences made with a course in applied computer science which was based on the concept of communities of practice. Within the scope of the course “Entrepreneurship...
Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke, Markus Rohde, Volker ...