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Turning liabilities into assets in a general education course

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 30, Issue 1

Pages 58 - 62

https://doi.org/10.1145/274790.273162

Published: 01 March 1998 Publication History

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Debate concerning the content of the general education Computer Science course or the "Computer Literacy" course captures the interest and divides the opinion of the Computer Science community. This paper describes three of the typical difficulties (liabilities) that instructors of a general education course encounter and how instructors may capitalize on these difficulties to transform them into assets.

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Turning liabilities into assets in a general education course
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 30, Issue 1

Mar. 1998

376 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/274790

Chairmen:
John Lewis
Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA
,
Jane Prey
Univ. of Virginia
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Editors:
John Impagliazzo
Hofstra Univ., Hempstead
,
Daniel Joyce
Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA

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SIGCSE '98: Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 1998
396 pages
ISBN:0897919947
DOI:10.1145/273133
Chairmen:
John Lewis
Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA
,
Jane Prey
Univ. of Virginia
,
Editors:
Daniel Joyce
Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA
,
John Impagliazzo
Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY

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