In 1977, the Wisconsin Certification Standards listed a secondary level teaching certificate in computer science for the first time. While at least 97 (out of 436) school districts in Wisconsin were offering courses in computer science, only five ...

Historically, we have watched Computer Science Departments arise from a variety of environments. In fact, many departments have not yet gained an identity for themselves. This is obvious from the department names we see—Computer and Information Science, ...

Considerations involved in designing an undergraduate computer science curriculum for a small private liberal arts college are presented. Observations are made relative to the design and implementation of such a program at the School of the Ozarks, a ...

Denison University is a small, liberal arts college located in Granville, Ohio. It has a student body of approximately 2000 undergraduates and a faculty of approximately 165. Courses in Computer Science have been offered since 1969, and in 1972 it ...

The content of programs in computer science is an issue of substantial concern to both academicians and practitioners. Studies have been conducted to determine what background graduates should have and which sets of courses and training experiences ...

Over the past few years, structured programming concepts and techniques have played a major role in forming the content and approach in introductory programming courses. In these courses the students learn the fundamentals of programming and the ...

In recent years a number of colleges and universities have modified their introductory computer science curriculum. These schools have concluded that algorithm development and computer programming are sufficiently difficult to require a two semester ...

It is well known that college and university level programs in the computing sciences continue to turn out graduates who are schooled in topics such as compiler writing, automata theory and numerical analysis, while the vast majority of potential employers ...

Beginning September, 1975, the Computer Science Department at the University of Western Ontario switched from FORTRAN to PASCAL as the primary language in the first year introductory course. The motivation for such a change was to introduce into the ...

This paper discusses the objectives of a microcomputer laboratory established to support the Computer Science programmes at McMaster University. Three objectives are identified:

1. To serve as the means of reinforcing the understanding of fundamental ...

This paper reports the author's progress toward developing a microcomputer laboratory suitable for teaching some of the basic concepts of computer science. The rationale for this approach is presented, followed by a description of the hardware and ...

Recent literature in both the computer science [1,2] and data processing [3,4] communities encourages the involvement of computing students not only in formal classroom experiences but also in “real world” learning experiences such as project ...

This paper provides a description of the Stephen F. Austin State University Computer Science Advisory Council and the ongoing advisory program. Experience has shown that a well-formed council operating with the computer science faculty in a well-planned ...

The development, operation and evaluation of a federally supported (National Science Foundation Grant SMI77-13063) program to develop teachers trained in computing and its application to serve as computer resource persons in their local schools is ...

Students are exposed to various computer languages by means of introductory courses and texts. Often times, they do not have an adequate amount of time to become highly proficient in all aspects of a language. In the battle against time, often the ...

This paper describes and analyzes Math 464, a course in data structures at Northern Illinois University. The course is taught in keeping with the underlying philosophy of the university's computer science curriculum: it is an applications course of ...

Contest activity can be staged in a wide variety of ways and the features of a contest design can be drawn from wide spectra of possibilities. The participants can be brought together for the contest or can stay home and send their programs to the ...

The need for graduates from master's programs in computer science and related areas is well recognized [19, 20]. Indeed, some companies have a policy of extensively utilizing master's programs at universities for the continuing education of their ...