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Teacing breadth-first depth-first

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ITiCSE '01: Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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This paper argues that current approaches to teaching the introductory course for the CS major fail to provide students with an accurate sense of the nature of our field. We propose that an introductory course focused on a single sub-field of our discipline could better prepare potential majors by using that sub-field as a vehicle to present an overview of the techniques and principles fundamental to computer science. We discuss our experience with such a course based on the field of computer networks.

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June 2001

198 pages

ISBN:1581133308

DOI:10.1145/377435

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Grand Valley State Univ.
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South Bank State Univ., U.K.
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Georgia Institute of Technology

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 33, Issue 3
Sept. 2001
211 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/507758
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Lee JKester MSchulzrinne HCortina TWalker EKing LMusicant D(2011)Follow the river and you will find the CProceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/1953163.1953285(411-416)Online publication date: 9-Mar-2011
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Schwartz MSadler PSonnert GTai R(2008)Depth versus breadth: How content coverage in high school science courses relates to later success in college science courseworkScience Education10.1002/sce.2032893:5(798-826)Online publication date: 22-Dec-2008
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Murtagh T(2007)Weaving CS into CS1ACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1227504.122742939:1(336-340)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1227504.1227429
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