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FECS
2006
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14 years 10 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
CG
2000
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Re-inventing the introductory computer graphics course: providing tools for a wider audience
Traditionally, the introductory computer graphics course in computer science has focused on fundamental algorithms and techniques for creating images and animations. This was refl...
Steve Cunningham
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Teaching computation to undergraduate scientists
This paper describes the motivation and design of an introductory computational course for natural, physical, and social scientists. Categories and Subject Descriptors: K.3.2 Comp...
Daniel T. Kaplan
AAAI
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Introductory Computer Science with Robots
Starting in the fall of 2005 our department began a large-scale effort to incorporate hands-on robotics in many of our courses, including our introductory computer science sequenc...
Debra T. Burhans, R. Mark Meyer, Patricia VanVerth...