Alyce Brady

Resources for next generation introductory CS courses: report of the ITiCSE'99 working group on resources for the next generation CS 1 course

The ongoing purpose of this working group is to collect, evaluate, and foster the development of resources that might be used in next generation introductory CS courses. Such courses will integrate elements of object-oriented programming and design, program design patterns, concurrency, and event-driven programming. The product of the working group is a web repository that provides resources that might be used in such a course. The site will include sample syllabi, pedagogical patterns, programming and design patterns, course modules, projects, tools and techniques.The URL for the web site is:http://csis.pace.edu/ ~bergin/iticse99/

The 2003 model curriculum for a liberal arts degree in computer science: preliminary report

This special session will present a preliminary report on the latest recommendations for a model liberal arts computer curriculum as formulated by the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium. This group provided earlier recommendations for model curricula for liberal arts degrees in computer science in 1986 [3] and 1996 [4]. The new curriculum takes into account advances in the discipline and the recommendations of Computing Curricula 2001 [2], but places them in the context of a liberal arts curriculum where students are expected to take courses in a variety of disciplines. Overall, a computer science program in a liberal arts setting typically requires no more than 40-45% of a student’s undergraduate program (including math and other science). While this balance places severe limits on the number of

Current and future direction of the advanced placement exam

Through a larger initiative involving mathematical sciences faculty from the three State of Iowa Board of Regents’ institutions, faculty members from the Departments of Statistics and Mathematics at Iowa State University have started a collaboration in the area of statistics training for future and current mathematics teachers. In this paper, we begin by discussing the recent developments in high school mathematics education at both the state and national level that served as a focus for change in the statistics education of mathematics teachers in the state. We then describe our present efforts in changing curriculum in statistical content and pedagogy in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Iowa State for future and current mathematics teachers. Finally, we offer some direction for future work in these regards.

Introduction to the marine biology case study (seminar session)

A new case study for the AP curriculum, based on a marine biology simulation program will be released for the 2000-2001 academic year. The case study highlights linear and two-dimensional data structures, object interaction, object-oriented design, and discrete simulation. This seminar will introduce the new case study to AP teachers and other interested CS educators, and will discuss how it can be integrated into the AP (or CS 1 and CS 2) curricula.

Nifty assignment

Introduction I can worry about the strategy of my syllabus, and I can fret over my lectures. Nonetheless, I am always struck that what my students really learn and enjoy in the course depends very much on the assignments. Great assignments are hard to dream up and time-consuming to develop. With that in mind, the Nifty Assignments session is all about promoting and sharing the ideas and concrete materials of successful assignments