A concept-oriented approach to introductory computer science

Conner, William M.

doi:10.1145/382063.803382

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“…A literature review of the recent work in this area [1, 3,4,5,6,8,9] gives strong support to the curriculum and methodology presented here which is also, in content, very similar to the recommendations of the C3S of the ACM [2].…”

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A one-year introductory course for computer science undergraduate program

Behforooz

Sharma

1981

SIGCSE Bull.

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A one-year introductory course for computer science undergraduate program

Behforooz

Sharma

1981

SIGCSE Bull.

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A one-year introductory course for computer science undergraduate program

Behforooz

Sharma

1981

Proceedings of the Twelfth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - SIGCSE '81

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The nppro~ch t~ken to teach the first undergraduate course in computer science varies a gre~t deal.The one that places major emphasis on the teaching of a programming language is still widely used.We find many drawbacks with this approach.In our opinion, the discussion of introductory computer concepts and problem-solving techniques should precede the coverage of the syntax of a programming language.Tt is also our belief that basic data structure concepts should be presented in the first course and discussed independently of any particular programming language considerations. Finally, we don't subscribe to the view that teaching of programming styles should be delayed until later courses.With these ideas in view, we present in this paper the outline of a one-year beginning course for the computer science undergraduate degree program.© 1981 ACM 0-89791-036-2/81/0200/0046 $00.75The set of required courses contain the following core courses:COMS 150

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“…Programming -in the sense of learning a language -the n becomes just one aspect of the entire course, whic h covers such topics such as hardware configuration , data structures, high-level programming languages , assembly languages, number systems, operating systems and other support programs, mathematical models of computers, among others . Courses of thi s type have been implemented in many locations, suc h as [1], [2] .…”

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