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Designing and running a pre-college computing course

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Mihaela Sabin,

Bryan Higgs,

Vladimir Riabov,

Alberto MoreiraAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 20, Issue 5

Pages 176 - 187

Published: 01 May 2005 Publication History

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Enrollments in undergraduate computer science programs have declined steadily over the past few years. Overall, high school computer science curriculum is limited to either basic usage of Microsoft office tools or some advanced placement programming. Student expectations of undergraduate computer science courses for non-majors as well as the scope of computer science literacy in general are moving targets. All these problems have a negative impact on undergraduate recruitment and on promoting computing sciences courses and programs. In this paper we present our experience with a pre-college course in computing for high-school students offered at our College in the summer of 2004. We have learned promising lessons from running this program. These lessons can guide the curriculum design of computing courses for non-majors and motivate prospective students to pursue computer science programs.

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Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 20, Issue 5

May 2005

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Tedford PKing S(2009)Using a summer camp to attract computer science majorsJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/1516546.151656424:4(97-103)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2009
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Doyle MKirby KNewell G(2008)Engaging constructionsACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1352322.135215840:1(58-62)Online publication date: 12-Mar-2008
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Doyle MKirby KNewell GDougherty JRodger SFitzgerald SGuzdial M(2008)Engaging constructionsProceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/1352135.1352158(58-62)Online publication date: 12-Mar-2008
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Higgs BSabin MFriedman R(2005)Towards using online portfolios in computing coursesProceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education10.1145/1095714.1095789(323-328)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2005
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