Introduction to Media Computation: A New CS1 Approach Aimed at Non-Majors and Under-Represented Populations

0306050马克Guzdial格鲁吉亚技术研究公司-格鲁吉亚技术研究所媒体计算介绍：一种新的CS 1方法，针对非专业和代表性不足的人口250,998美元这项建议的重点是创建一种新的CS 1课程为中心的媒体计算。该项目是建立在假设，对许多学生来说，计算是关于通信和引入计算的通信环境中从事学生，并导致增加的动机。媒体计算是使用计算来创建、修改和转换媒体。多媒体，已经通过了需要复杂的活动来创建视频效果或产生新颖的声音的阶段，享有一个国家的艺术，使其可行的概念，从后期的本科生/研究生早期课程的入门课程。这个项目挑战了传统的CS 1/CS2内容，这些内容可能无法反映软件开发人员在当今劳动力中从事的最常见的活动。更常见的是，当代IT专业人员所做的事情涉及以新的方式解决新的问题。大量的IT专业人员将构建多媒体作为其职业生涯的一部分，而且这个数字可能会增加。虽然该项目的目标不是让学生为这些工作做好准备，但重点是多媒体操作是一项可以吸引学生的活动。一旦参与，学生学习如何实现这些“基于计算机的解决方案，以非计算问题”的潜力得到增强。本项目的PI假设，早期引入多媒体有可能提高入门课程的入学率和成功率。该提案计划有三个组成部分：建立一个集成的开发环境，支持媒体计算的学生;开发一套基于Java的材料，以提高传播的建议的方法;评估这些发展的影响-也就是说，媒体计算方法集成到传统的CS课程的容易程度。

0306050Mark GuzdialGeorgia Technology Research Corp - Georgia Institute of TechnologyIntroduction to Media Computation: A new CS1 approach aimed at non-majors and under-represented populations$250,998This proposal focuses on creating a new kind of CS1 course centered on media computation. The project is founded on the hypothesis that, for many students, computation is about communication and introducing computation in a communications context engages students and leads to increased motivation. Media computation is the use of computation to create, modify, and transform media. Multimedia, having passed the stage of requiring complex activities to create video effects or to generate novel sounds, enjoys a state of the art that makes it feasible to move its concepts from late-undergraduate/early-graduate courses to introductory courses. This project challenges traditional CS1/CS2 content which may not reflect the most common kinds of activities that software developers engage in today in the workforce. More commonly, what contemporary IT professionals do involves solving new kinds of problems in new kinds of ways. A large number of IT professionals construct multimedia as part of their careers, and that number may be increasing. While the project goal is not to prepare students for such jobs only, the point is that multimedia manipulation is an activity that can engage students. Once engaged, the students' potential for learning how to implement those "computer-based solutions to non-computing problems" is enhanced. The PI for this project hypothesizes that introducing multimedia early has the potential to improve enrollment and success rates in introductory courses. The proposal plan has three components: To build an integrated development environment for students that supports media computation; To develop a set of Java-based materials to improve dissemination of the proposed approach; To evaluate the impact of these developments -- that is, the ease of integration of a media computation approach into traditional CS courses.