Development of a Teaching Laboratory for an Introductory Programming Course

9451507 GRIES这个指导性计算机实验室将用于一系列新颖的课程，首先是针对没有编程经验的学生的编程入门课程。该实验室将用于在交互式环境中教授这门编程课程。序列中的另一个要点将是系统动力学方面的机械和航空航天工程课程。这是一门面向专业的高级课程。需要新的设备，使这些学生能够做有趣的动态模拟工作。在指导学生使用他们的软件时，教学实验室的存在将是重要的。这个序列是两个系教职员工想法的结果。他们计划利用该设施的联合使用，在计算机科学入门课程和工程和科学的高级课程之间架起桥梁。以系统动力学课程为目标，他们将努力促进学生从这门入门编程课程，到我们为具有微积分知识的学生提供的更具挑战性的入门课程，最后到系统动力学和其他高级工程课程。这一共同努力将纳入为编程课程编写的一篇课文。该实验室将对康奈尔大学的当地产生重大影响。制作的编程文本应该会帮助其他学院和大学建立类似的方法。通过与机械工程学的合作，丰富了课程和课文，这将使课文与目前可用的任何内容都有很大不同。

9451507 Gries This instructional computer laboratory will be used for a novel sequence of courses that starts with an introductory programming course targeted at students having no previous experience in programming. The laboratory will be used to teach this programming course in an interactive environment. Another point in the sequence will be a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering course in system dynamics. This is an upper-level course for majors. New equipment is needed that will enable these students to do interesting work with dynamic simulation. The existence of a teaching laboratory will be important when instructing the students in the use of their software. This sequence is the result of ideas from the faculty in the two departments. They plan to exploit the joint use of the facility to build bridges between the introductory computer science courses and upper-level courses in engineering and science. Using the systems dynamics course as a target, they will try to facilitate a student's progress from this introductory programming course, to our more challenging introductory course for students with a knowledge of calculus, and finally to the systems dynamics and other upper-level engineering courses. This joint effort will be incorporated into the development of a text for the programming course. The laboratory will have a significant impact locally at Cornell. The programming text produced should help other colleges and universities to institute a similar approach. The enrichments to the course and text achieved through work with Mechanical Engineering will make the text quite different from anything now available.