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Discrete math with programming: better together

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Kirby McMaster,

Nicole Anderson,

Brian RagueAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 100 - 104

https://doi.org/10.1145/1227310.1227348

Published: 07 March 2007 Publication History

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This paper proposes a Discrete Mathatics course that is integrated with programming. The course consists of a sequence of Math modules with coordinated programming projects. Advantages of this approach are presented, and a methodology for developing the course is shown. A sample list of Math modules and brief project descriptions are included.

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