CS150 Laboratory Development

该项目旨在改变计算机科学入门课程，以更好地激发和维持学生的兴趣，并提供更广泛的解决问题的技能，在以后的课程中取得成功。 本课程将通过以下方式进行改革： * 让学生接触各种编程范例， * 扩展课程演示以适应其他学习方式 * 开发利用当前技术的相关作业。 这些转换将通过在课程中增加一个基于java的多媒体实验室组件来完成。 Java以视觉刺激的方式促进了各种编程范式的引入，并且对于入门学生来说是一种相对容易学习的语言。 一个结构化的，动手实验室将允许学生获得计算作为一个动态的，交互式的和协作的过程的视图。 这些将有助于学生更好地为以后课程的严格性和理论性做好准备。 实验室中的视觉和动手体验也将实现我们吸引不同学习风格的目标。 将计算视为静态、孤立的企业的传统观点在当今动态、网络化和面向图形的环境中不再适用。 此外，传统的方法来教入门计算既不适用于当前的计算观，也不适用于许多学习风格的学生谁populationit.This项目，因此，打算提供一个迁移模式，从传统的课程向一个更适合今天的学生和计算环境。 *

This project seeks to transform the introductory computer science course to better excite and sustain student interest and to provide broader problem solving skills needed for success in later courses. The course will be transformed by: * exposing students to a variety of programming paradigms, * expanding course presentation to accommodate additional learning styles * developing relevant assignments which make use of current technologies. These transformations will be accomplished by adding a java-based multimedia laboratory component to the course. Java facilitates the introduction of a variety of programming paradigms in a visually stimulating manner and is a comparatively easy language for introductory students to learn. A structured, hands-on laboratory will allow students to acquire a view of computation as a dynamic, interactive, and collaborative process. Together these will help to better prepare students for the increased rigor and theoretical nature of later classes. The visual and hands-on experiences in the lab will also accomplish our goal of appealing to diverse learning styles. The traditional view of computation as a static, isolated enterprise is no longer applicable in today's dynamic, networked and graphically oriented environments. Moreover, the traditional approach to teaching introductory computation is neither applicable to the current view of computation nor to many of the learning styles of the students who populate it. This project, therefore, intends to provide a model for migration away from the traditional course toward one which is more appropriate for today's students and computing environments. *