A Self-Paced Mastery-Oriented Introductory Astronomy Course

A Self-Paced Introductory Programming Course

In this paper, a required introductory programming course being taught to MIS undergraduates using the C++ programming language is described. Two factors make the objectives of the course—which are to provide students with an exposure to the logical organization of the computer in addition to teaching them basic programming logic—particularly challenging to achieve. First, students enter the co...

A Project-Oriented Organization for an Introductory Computational Science Course

Dealing with students of diverse majors, mathematical background and programming experience presents a challenge to interdisciplinary courses such as “Introduction to Computational Science.” The author’s solution to this problem was to base the course on a sequence of interesting and illustrative problems/projects. This approach allows the physical models, mathematical models, numerical techniq...

A Mastery Learning Approach: an Introductory Programming Course Design for Diversified Students’ Interests

An introductory programming course such as CS1 is one of the most essential courses in terms that successive computer science (CS) courses heavily depend on students’ attainment level of CS1. In this study, we show our experience of our CS1 course to conform with diversified students’ interest. We introduce (1) “virtual small group classes”(VSCs) which are practical laboratory programming work ...

An Introductory Course on Service-Oriented Computing for High Schools

Executive Summary Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that has been adopted by major computer companies as well as government agencies such as the Department of Defense for mission critical applications. SOC is being used for developing Web and electronic business applications , as well as robotics, gaming, and scientific applications. Yet, SOC education is lagging. In ...

Suicide and self-assault: an introductory course for medical students.