Pilot Project: Teaching Introductory Programming Utilizing the Liberal Arts

试点项目：利用文科教学入门编程

• 批准号: 0855870
• 负责人: Mary Elizabeth Jones
• 金额: $ 16.33万
• 依托单位: Immaculata University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855870&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pilot; Project; Teaching; Introductory; Programming

Current undergraduate computer science curricula do adequately prepare students to communicate and interpret technical skills to other technical disciplines. Effective and efficient programming demands technical skill and creativity, mental discipline and intellectual openness, but computer programming is usually taught from a technocentric viewpoint, so that students do not develop skills that enable them to develop programs for diverse and rigorous applications. Students therefore lack adequate contextual understanding of how programming skills solve real world problems. The result is project difficulties manifested in the management, design and implementation of software applications.This pilot project improves our understanding of the creative processes in the context of software design, through the design, implementation, testing, refinement, and dissemination of an introductory undergraduate computer programming course through storytelling using the ALICE programming language.Intellectual Merit: The project advances instructional strategies for introductory programming that foster creativity through focus on planning, attention to process, collaborative problem solving, and design refinement and refactoring. The use of storytelling to teach programming is a highly novel approach to extending the work begun in the ALICE project (partially funded by NSF). This will be accomplished by embedding the programming skills into an integrated liberal arts environment, and specifically focusing on learning and using programming structures in the service of a broader task. Broader Impacts: The proposed project provides an instructional strategy to enhance teachers? ability to recognize, articulate, and demonstrate integration points between creative and technical skills through the use of storytelling. It will enhance the problem-solving and collaborative skills of students and help them build connections between diverse tasks and the applicability of programming as a problem-solving tool. It will help build solid planning and collaboration skills in IT (Information Technology) students and invite a more diverse group of students to enhance their creative endeavors through programming. In a time of rapidly growing need for individuals with programming expertise, it has the potential to provide a new model for training a new generation of technical specialists.

目前的本科计算机科学课程确实为学生与其他技术学科交流和解释技术技能做了充分的准备。有效和高效的编程需要技术技能和创造力，精神纪律和智力开放性，但计算机编程通常是从技术中心的观点来教授的，这样学生就不会发展技能，使他们能够为各种严格的应用程序开发程序。因此，学生们对编程技能如何解决真实的世界问题缺乏足够的上下文理解。结果是项目的困难表现在管理，设计和实施的软件应用程序。这个试点项目提高了我们的理解，创造性的过程中，软件设计的背景下，通过设计，实施，测试，完善，并通过讲故事使用ALICE编程语言的介绍本科计算机编程课程的传播。智力优点：该项目推进了入门编程的教学策略，通过专注于规划，关注过程，协作解决问题以及设计改进和重构来培养创造力。使用讲故事来教授编程是一种非常新颖的方法，可以扩展ALICE项目（部分由NSF资助）中开始的工作。这将通过将编程技能嵌入到一个综合的文科环境中来实现，特别是专注于学习和使用编程结构来完成更广泛的任务。更广泛的影响：拟议的项目提供了一个教学战略，以提高教师？通过讲故事来识别、表达和展示创意和技术技能之间的整合点的能力。 它将提高学生解决问题和协作的技能，并帮助他们建立不同任务之间的联系，并将编程作为解决问题的工具。它将帮助IT（信息技术）学生建立坚实的规划和协作技能，并邀请更多样化的学生群体通过编程来增强他们的创造性努力。在对具有编程专门知识的个人的需求迅速增长的时代，它有可能为培训新一代技术专家提供新的模式。