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的课程，这些课程以编程入门课程开始，目标是面向以前没有编程经验的学生。该实验室将用于在交互式环境中教授这门编程课程。另一个点将是机械和航空航天工程的系统动力学课程。这是一门专业的高级课程。需要新的设备，使这些学生能够用动态模拟做有趣的工作。在指导学生使用软件时，教学实验室的存在是很重要的。这个顺序是两个系教员的想法的结果。他们计划共同利用该设施，在计算机科学入门课程与工程和科学高级课程之间架起桥梁。以系统动力学课程为目标，他们将尝试促进学生从这门编程入门课程，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的进步。这一共同努力将纳入编写程序设计课程教材的工作中。该实验室将对康奈尔当地产生重大影响。编写的编程文本应该帮助其他学院和大学采用类似的方法。通过与机械工程的合作，丰富了课程和文本，将使文本与现有的任何内容都大不相同。

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.