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Teaching entering students to think like computer scientists

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SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

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This paper describes a new course developed at University of Maine to help students better understand the discipline of computer science and to aid us in recruiting and retaining majors. The course verview of computer science, but also, through focusing on particular topics at an advanced level, begins to teach students how computer scientists think about problems. The course has been taught in Fall 2002, 2003 and 2004. This paper describes the course and discusses our results from the first two years.

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Teaching entering students to think like computer scientists
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    1. Computing education
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SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

February 2005

610 pages

ISBN:1581139977

DOI:10.1145/1047344

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University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 37, Issue 1
2005
562 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1047124
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