Nell Dale
Abstract
In the spring of 2004, 351 faculty members responded to a survey concerning the content and topic emphasis in the first course in computing. The survey targeted two different groups of faculty, one SIGCSE members and the other faculty who had contacted a medium-sized publisher of Computer Science textbooks. The questions fell into five categories: design methodology, general programming issues, object-oriented issues, software engineering issues, and other topics. The results are analyzed and, where possible, some conclusions are drawn.
- SurveySuite Software, the University of Virginia: http://intercom.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/intercom/SurveySuite/ss_index.plGoogle Scholar
- N. Dale, Survey Results, SIGCSE group: www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ndale/ContentResults.htmlGoogle Scholar
- N. Dale, Survey Results, publisher's list group: www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ndale/ContentResults2.htmlGoogle Scholar
- ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force (1991). Computing Curricula 1991. New York: ACM Press.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Content and emphasis in CS1
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