ANT: A Coherent Framework for Computer Science Education

ANT：计算机科学教育的连贯框架

• 批准号: 9950239
• 负责人: Margo Seltzer
• 金额: $ 43万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-01 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9950239&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ANT; Coherent; Framework; Computer; Science

This full EMD project is enhancing ANT, a virtual machine framework. Previously used to teach CS students introductory concepts about machine architecture, assembly language programming and data representation, ANT is being expanded to be applicable and useful across the CS core curriculum, such as in architecture and logic courses, VLSI design courses, compiler courses, and operating systems courses. ANT is designed to provide students with the background, tools, techniques and intuitions that can be applied to solving real problems. The ANT framework provides continuity between courses, demonstrates real-world examples of code reuse, and gives students a thorough understanding of a computational framework that cuts through many layers of abstraction. The ANT implementation is being revised to make it suitable for diverse populations, including other universities, community colleges, adult education programs, and high school computing courses. This is being accomplished by developing multi-platform support and a robust graphical user interface. A formative evaluation is being conducted at several different computer science education settings. An evaluation protocol has been developed to be distributed to all test sites. Both pre and post treatment data is being collected to provide a comparison of results using ANT. In addition a methodology for studying student work habits is being implemented to allow analysis of usefulness of ANT in the context of specific courses. Dissemination is being accomplished using an ANT web site containing documentation, tutorials, the evaluation results and the actual ANT platform. This is being established and maintained on the Harvard University server with the commitment to sustain the site as long as ANT is considered to be useful to teach computer science. Negotiations are taking place with a publisher of computer science texts books to publish the complete ANT documentation along with a CD-ROM containing the product and sample problems.

这个完整的EMD项目增强了虚拟机框架ANT。ANT以前用于教授计算机科学学生有关机器体系结构、汇编语言编程和数据表示的入门概念，现在正在扩展为适用于计算机科学核心课程，如体系结构和逻辑课程、VLSI设计课程、编译器课程和操作系统课程。ANT旨在为学生提供可用于解决实际问题的背景知识、工具、技术和直觉。ANT框架提供了课程之间的连续性，展示了代码重用的真实示例，并使学生彻底了解了贯穿许多抽象层的计算框架。ANT的实现正在进行修改，以使其适合不同的人群，包括其他大学、社区学院、成人教育课程和高中计算机课程。这是通过开发多平台支持和健壮的图形用户界面来实现的。一项形成性评估正在几个不同的计算机科学教育环境中进行。已经制定了一项评价规程，将分发给所有试验场。正在收集治疗前和治疗后的数据，以提供使用ANT的结果比较。此外，正在实施一种研究学生工作习惯的方法，以便分析ANT在特定课程中的有用性。正在使用ANT网站进行传播，该网站载有文档、教程、评估结果和实际的ANT平台。这是在哈佛大学的服务器上建立和维护的，只要ANT被认为对教授计算机科学有用，就承诺维持该站点。目前正在与计算机科学教科书的出版商进行谈判，以便出版完整的ANT文档以及包含产品和示例问题的CD-ROM。