Adding Breadth and Laboratories to the Introductory ComputerScience Courses

在计算机科学入门课程中增加广度和实验室这个项目根据ACM的建议，对本科计算机科学课程的头两年进行了两次修改。第一个修改将这些课程的重点从主要的软件开发技术扩大到考虑计算机科学学科的广度。第二个变化是将定期、结构化实验室的使用与传统的讲授方法相结合。提供给学生的练习需要对课程讲课部分中讨论的概念进行具体操作。项目活动包括编写讲座和课本材料并进行课堂测试，以支持内容呈现的“广度”方法。还在开发材料，以支持课程的实验室部分。这些实验练习完全独立于讲课，可以与课程安排一起使用，而不是本项目中正在制定的课程安排。该项目包括一个评估部分，试图衡量在项目期间开发的材料的有效性。最后，该项目将通过暑期讲习班、出版物和在专业会议上的陈述来传播课程和材料开发阶段的成果。

Adding Breadth and Laboratories to the Introductory Computer Science CoursesThis project develops two modifications to the first two years of the undergraduate computer science curriculum in response to ACM recommendations. The first modification broadens the focus of these courses from primarily software development techniques to consideration of the breadth of the computer science discipline. The second change blends the use of scheduled, structured laboratories with the traditional lecture approach. Students are provided activities that require the concrete manipulation of the concepts discussed in the lecture portion of the course. Project activities include the development and class-testing of lecture and text materials to support the "breadth" approach to content presentation. Materials are also being developed to support the laboratory portion of the courses. These laboratory exercises are sufficiently independent of the lecture to allow them to be used with curricular arrangements other than the one being developed in this project. The project includes an assessment component that attempts to measure the effectiveness of the materials developed during the project. Finally, the project will disseminate the results of the curriculum and materials development phases through summer workshops, publications, and presentations at professional meetings.