A Microcomputer Laboratory for Teaching Introductory Computer Science Courses

该项目将通过以下方式改善城市学院的早期计算机科学教育：(1)提供比现有设备更适合初级计算机科学教学的硬件和软件；(2)建立早期课程，课堂理论与实验实践相辅相成，进步更快，理解更深。这两个部分都是必不可少的：使用现有的设备和软件来改进教学将非常困难，而没有创新教学法的新设备将是浪费。有了新的设备，他们将开发课程演示方法，使讲座更有意义，并立即在实验室环境中应用这些想法。相反，在实验室经验中，由准备好的作业提出的问题将激发对问题的思考，从而使后续的讲座更有意义。

This project will improve early computer science education at City College by: (1) providing hardware and software that are very much better suited to teaching elementary computer science than existing equipment; and (2) building early courses in which lecture theory and laboratory practice reinforce each other, leading to faster progress and deeper understanding. Both parts are essential: improved pedagogy would be very difficult using existing equipment and software, and new equipment without innovative pedagogy would be wasteful. With the new equipment they will develop course presentation methodology that makes the lectures more meaningful by immediately applying the ideas in a laboratory setting. Conversely, issues raised by prepared assignments in the laboratory experience will stimulate thinking about issues in such a way as to make subsequent lectures more meaningful.