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Tiêu đề
Linking language & thinking with code: Computing within a writing-intensive introduction to the liberal arts
Tác giả
O'Hara K.J.; Burke K.; Ruggiero D.; Anderson S.
Năm xuất bản
2017
Source title
Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
Số trích dẫn
6
DOI
10.1145/3059009.3059018
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
This paper describes the design, implementation and preliminary evaluation of a computing component for a three-week writing-intensive introductory program at a liberal arts college. Specific curricular recommendations are presented that could have a direct, positive impact if adopted in similar courses. A two-pronged approach involving a faculty-led HTML workshop, along with student-led contextualized coding studios, was employed. Computing Unplugged activities were used, including a novel Page Rank Unplugged networking activity. An analysis of attitude surveys shows the program positively changed students attitudes about enjoyment solving CS problems, but potentially reinforced the misconception that CS is just learning programming languages. © 2017 ACM.
Từ khóa
Attitudes; Computing in liberal arts; Computing unplugged
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Nơi xuất bản
Association for Computing Machinery
Hình thức xuất bản
Conference paper
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus