Development of a set of "Closed Laboratories" for an Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum

该项目的目标是支持发展， 评估和输出新的课程和支持 围绕计算实践的材料，特别是 在头两年。 新课程的主旨是 基于封闭实验室的核心序列 讲座 材料和内容将支持实验室 而不是相反 作为一门学科，计算机 科学在其短暂的历史中经历了许多戏剧性的变化。 通过新的教科书和不断发展的课程， 本科计算机科学教育的大部分 部分跟上了这些变化。 但教育学几乎没有 变了 它强调个人的写作技巧短 用一种死了的语言编写程序 对这点的强调却被 与当代计算机所需要的相反， 专业. 该项目开发了一个以实践为中心的 本科计算机科学课程，特别是 开发了一系列支持这一点的实验室材料 approach. 该方法的核心是提高 所有课程的严谨性，加上早期的介绍， 随后使用现代软件开发方法， 工具。期望是，这种教学转变将有 提高计算机科学教育的最高杠杆。

The objective of this project is to support the development, evaluation, and export of a new curriculum and supporting materials focused around the practice of computing, especially in the first two years. The thrust of the new curriculum is based upon a core sequence of closed laboratories. Lecture materials and content will be supportive of the laboratories rather than the other way around. As a discipline, Computer Science has seen many dramatic changes in its brief history. Through new textbooks and an evolving curriculum, the content of undergraduate Computer Science education has for the most part kept pace with these changes. But the pedagogy has hardly changed. It emphasizes individual skill in writing short programs in a dead language, from scratch. This emphasis is the antithesis of that needed by a contemporary computing professional. This project develops a practice-centered undergraduate Computer Science curriculum, and specifically develops a collection of laboratory materials that support this approach. Central to the approach is an increased degree of rigor in all courses, coupled with the early introduction and subsequent use of modern software development methods and tools.The expectation is that this pedagogical shift will have the highest leverage for improving Computer Science education.