Development of a set of "Closed Laboratories" for an Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum

为本科计算机科学课程开发一套“封闭实验室”

• 批准号: 9156112
• 负责人: William Wulf
• 金额: $ 66.95万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-01 至 1996-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9156112&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; set; Closed; Laboratories; Undergraduate

The objective of this project is to support the development, evaluation, and export of a new curriculum and supporting materials focused around the practice of computing, especially in the first two years. The thrust of the new curriculum is based upon a core sequence of closed laboratories. Lecture materials and content will be supportive of the laboratories rather than the other way around. As a discipline, Computer Science has seen many dramatic changes in its brief history. Through new textbooks and an evolving curriculum, the content of undergraduate Computer Science education has for the most part kept pace with these changes. But the pedagogy has hardly changed. It emphasizes individual skill in writing short programs in a dead language, from scratch. This emphasis is the antithesis of that needed by a contemporary computing professional. This project develops a practice-centered undergraduate Computer Science curriculum, and specifically develops a collection of laboratory materials that support this approach. Central to the approach is an increased degree of rigor in all courses, coupled with the early introduction and subsequent use of modern software development methods and tools.The expectation is that this pedagogical shift will have the highest leverage for improving Computer Science education.

该项目的目标是支持围绕计算实践的新课程和辅助材料的开发、评估和输出，特别是在头两年。新课程的主旨是基于封闭实验室的核心序列。讲座材料和内容将支持实验室，而不是相反。作为一门学科，计算机科学在其短暂的历史中经历了许多戏剧性的变化。通过新的教科书和不断发展的课程，本科计算机科学教育的内容在很大程度上跟上了这些变化。但是教学方法几乎没有改变。它强调用一种死寂的语言从头开始编写短小程序的个人技能。这种强调与当代计算专业人员所需要的相反。本项目开发了一个以实践为中心的本科计算机科学课程，并特别开发了一系列支持这种方法的实验室材料。该方法的核心是增加所有课程的严谨性，以及早期引入和随后使用现代软件开发方法和工具。人们期望这种教学方式的转变将对提高计算机科学教育产生最大的影响。