A Multimedia Introduction to Computer Science: Two Courses from One

这个项目改编了佐治亚理工学院的一门课程“媒体计算入门”，在伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）创建了两门截然不同的计算机科学入门课程，使这些课程吸引人，令人兴奋，吸引大量不同类型的学生。其中一门课程是为非计算机科学专业的学生开设的，它将是一门一般流畅性课程，其目标是满足一般学生对计算机的兴趣，并帮助培养更多信息技术方面的知情公民。另一门课程将是对计算机科学和编程的一般介绍，特别是针对大约50-70%的计算机科学专业的新生，他们几乎没有计算机编程的背景，为那些同样合格但经验不足的学生提供一门更适合他们参与和兴奋的课程。这将在传统的cs1课程中创造公平的竞争环境，并提高这些经验不足的计算机科学专业学生的保留率

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