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A CS0 course for the liberal arts

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 38, Issue 1

Pages 77 - 81

https://doi.org/10.1145/1124706.1121368

Published: 03 March 2006 Publication History

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This paper describes a non-major introductory course in computer science, specifically for students at a liberal arts institution. College-wide writing and speaking requirements across the curriculum are supported through a variety of assignments. The computer science department has experienced many benefits as a result of offering this course, including improved performance by students in introduction to programming and greater enrollment numbers across departmental courses. Suggestions for improving future offerings of the class are also proposed in the paper.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 38, Issue 1

March 2006

553 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1124706

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SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2006
612 pages
ISBN:1595932593
DOI:10.1145/1121341
Program Chairs:
Doug Baldwin
SUNY Geneseo
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Paul Tymann
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Susan Haller
SUNY Potsdam
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Ingrid Russell
University of Hartford

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