A Multimedia Introduction to Computer Science: Two Courses from One

计算机科学多媒体简介：合二为一的课程

• 批准号: 0411219
• 负责人: Robert Sloan
• 金额: $ 9.93万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0411219&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multimedia; Introduction; Computer; Science; Two

This project adapts a Georgia Tech course, "Introduction to Media Computing," to create two very different introductory computer science courses at University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) to make these courses engaging, exciting and attractive to a large number and variety of students. One course, intended for students not majoring in computer science, will be a general fluency course, whose goals are to satisfy general student interests in computing and to help produce more informed citizens with respect to information technology. The other course will be a gentle introduction to computer science generally and programming in particular for the roughly 50-70% of incoming computer science majors who have very little background in computer programming, giving those equally qualified but less experienced students a course better suited to engage and excite them. This will level the playing field in the traditional CS 1 course and improve the retention rate of these less experienced computer science majors

该项目适应了佐治亚州科技课程“媒体计算简介”，以在伊利诺伊州 - 芝加哥大学（UIC）创建两个截然不同的入门计算机科学课程，以使这些课程引人入胜，令人兴奋且对大量学生的吸引力。一门课程是针对不主修计算机科学的学生的一门课程，它将是一门通用流利课程，其目标是满足学生对计算的一般利益，并在信息技术方面帮助产生更多知情的公民。另一门课程将是对计算机科学的温和介绍，尤其是针对大约50-70％的计算机科学专业专业的编程，他们在计算机编程方面的背景很少，为那些同样有资格但经验丰富的学生提供了一个更好的课程，可以更好地参与和激发他们的兴奋。这将在传统CS 1课程中升级竞争环境，并提高这些经验不足的计算机科学专业的保留率