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AAA and CS 1: the applied apprenticeship approach to CS 1

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Owen Astrachan,

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 27, Issue 1

Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/199691.199694

Published: 15 March 1995 Publication History

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We have developed an application-based approach to introductory courses in computer science. This approach follows an apprenticeship model of learning, where students begin by reading, studying, and extending programs written by experienced and expert programmers. Applications play a central role since programming constructs are motivated and introduced in the context of applications, not the other way around as is the tradition in most texts and courses. Under our applied approach, (1) students are able to learn from interesting real-world examples, (2) the synthesis of different programming constructs is supported using incremental examples, and (3) good design is stressed vis code and concept reuse. In this paper, we provide several examples of our method as well as pointers to all the material we have developed which is freely available electronically. The philosophy underlying this method transcends a particular programming language, but we present our examples using C++ since that is the language used in the CS 1 and CS 2 courses at Duke. This method has been used with equal success using ISETL at Dickinson.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 27, Issue 1

March 1995

402 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/199691

Editors:
Curt M. White
Indiana Univ., Fort Wayne and Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
,
James E. Miller
Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
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Cary Laxer
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
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Judy Gersting
Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo

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SIGCSE '95: Proceedings of the twenty-sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 1995
436 pages
ISBN:089791693X
DOI:10.1145/199688
Chairman:
Cary Laxer
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
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Editors:
Curt M. White
Indiana Univ., Fort Wayne and Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
,
James E. Miller
Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
,
Judy Gersting
Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo

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