Conference proceeding
Creating a new introductory course sequence for BSIT students
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on sig-information technology education, pp 187-191
22 Oct 2009
Abstract
This paper discusses a new set of introductory courses for a BSIT degree program. Previously, the BSIT students in this program started with a fairly typical "CS1/CS2" sequence. Our faculty decided to move away from this programming-oriented sequence as the degree starting point, while not reducing the programming learning outcomes for the overall degree. The process of making this change has required several steps, and the result is a substantially different set of courses.
The new sequence provides a much better introduction to the IT 2008 "pillars" from the very first courses in the program. In addition, there is a significant effort to help students see and understand applications that provide a context for the technical material. Finally, there are significant process elements that start students on programming and other technical work as a team-based activity from the very beginning.
This paper discusses the process of making this change, presents an outline of the new sequence, and provides some details on results of the effort.
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- Title
- Creating a new introductory course sequence for BSIT students
- Creators
- Gregory Hislop - Drexel UniversityLee Leitner - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on sig-information technology education, pp 187-191
- Conference
- 10th ACM conference on sig-information technology education, 10th
- Series
- SIGITE '09
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-72149102409
- Other Identifier
- 991019174501904721