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

该项目改编了佐治亚理工学院的课程“媒体计算导论”，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，使这些课程对大量不同类型的学生具有吸引力、令人兴奋和有吸引力。一门针对非计算机科学专业学生的课程将是一门普通流利课程，其目标是满足普通学生对计算的兴趣，并帮助培养对信息技术更加了解的公民。另一门课程将是对计算机科学的一般介绍，特别是对大约 50-70% 的计算机科学专业新生的编程的简单介绍，这些学生几乎没有计算机编程背景，为那些同样合格但经验不足的学生提供一门更适合吸引和激发他们兴趣的课程。这将为传统 CS 1 课程提供公平的竞争环境，并提高这些经验不足的计算机科学专业的保留率