A Microcomputer Laboratory for Teaching Introductory Computer Science Courses

该项目将通过以下方式改进城市学院的早期计算机科学教育：(1)提供比现有设备更适合教授基础计算机科学的硬件和软件；以及(2)建立讲授理论和实验室实践相辅相成的早期课程，从而导致更快的进展和更深入的理解。这两个部分都是必不可少的：改进的教学方法将很难使用现有的设备和软件，而没有创新教学方法的新设备将是浪费的。有了新的设备，他们将开发出课程陈述方法，通过在实验室环境中立即应用这些想法，使讲座更有意义。相反，实验经验中准备好的作业提出的问题将激发对问题的思考，从而使后续的讲座更有意义。

This project will improve early computer science education at City College by: (1) providing hardware and software that are very much better suited to teaching elementary computer science than existing equipment; and (2) building early courses in which lecture theory and laboratory practice reinforce each other, leading to faster progress and deeper understanding. Both parts are essential: improved pedagogy would be very difficult using existing equipment and software, and new equipment without innovative pedagogy would be wasteful. With the new equipment they will develop course presentation methodology that makes the lectures more meaningful by immediately applying the ideas in a laboratory setting. Conversely, issues raised by prepared assignments in the laboratory experience will stimulate thinking about issues in such a way as to make subsequent lectures more meaningful.