David Ranum

Beyond PDF and ePub: toward an interactive textbook

This paper describes a new and unique vision for electronic textbooks. It incorporates a number of active components such as video, code editing and execution, and code visualization as a way to enhance the typical static electronic book format. In addition, the textbook is created with an open source authoring system that has been developed to allow the instructor to customize the content of the active and passive parts of the text. Initial results of a semester long trial are presented as well.

Successful approaches to teaching introductory computer science courses with python

Learning computer science requires deliberate and incremental exposure to the fundamental ideas of the discipline. This paper will describe our initial experience teaching an introductory computer science sequence using the programming language Python. We will present our position and then use specific examples to show how Python can provide an exceptional environment for teaching computer science.

Runestone interactive: tools for creating interactive course materials

This demonstration will showcase a work in progress that implements a new and unique vision for electronic computer science textbooks. It incorporates a number of active components such as video, code editing and execution, and code visualization as a way to enhance the typical static electronic book format. In addition, the textbook is created with an open source authoring system that has been developed to allow the instructor to customize the content of the active and passive parts of the text.

ON SOME APPLICATIONS OF FIBONACCI NUMBERS

The computer science community also considers these values to have great importance. It is almost a guarantee that in the first introduction to recursion, a student will be subject to this very same recurrence as a recursive function to compute the nth Fibonacci number. However, this interest goes much further than a simple algorithmic example. In fact, the Fibonacci numbers and their associated properties have been used often in the development and analysis of data structures and algorithms.