Workshops on Algorithm Visualization in Computer Science Laboratories

所有级别的计算机科学课程都应该有结构化的实验室组成部分，这一想法正迅速在全国范围内获得推动。劳伦斯大学的教职员工正在完成一个为期三年的项目，该项目将算法可视化实验室纳入了贯穿整个计算机科学课程的课程。在这个项目中，他们开发了软件，以图形化的方式制作算法动画，并附带使用该软件的实验室练习。他们现在将提供两个为期一周的密集研讨会，帮助30名本科教师使用VAXStations、Macintoshes或IBM PC兼容机上提供的软件编写自己的基于可视化的实验室练习。讲习班结束一周后，学员将能够继续在其本国机构准备此类练习。研讨会后的工作将通过电子邮件或其他磁性媒体分发。讲习班和讲习班后活动的结合将导致全国范围内的计算机科学教育核心小组积极开发有趣的实验室练习和设施。

The notion that computer science courses at all levels should have structured laboratory components is rapidly gaining national impetus. Faculty at Lawrence University are completing a three- year project which has incorporated an algorithm visualization laboratory into courses spanning the entire computer science curriculum. During this project they have developed software to graphically animate algorithms and accompanying laboratory exercises which employ that software. They now will offer a pair of intensive, week-long workshops that will help thirty undergraduate faculty author their own visualization-based laboratory exercises using software which is available on VAXStations, Macintoshes, or IBM PC-compatibles. After the week of the workshop, participants will be able to continue preparing such exercises at their home institutions. This post-workshop work will be distributed via electronic mail or other magnetic media. The combination of workshop and post-workshop activities will thus result in a nation-wide core group of computer science educators actively developing intriguing laboratory exercises and facilities.