Integrating a problem-solving methodology and group skills into CS1

Author

Gates, A.Q.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., El Paso, TX, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

21-24 Apr 1996

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

15

Abstract

Many industry leaders recognize the importance of introducing software engineering techniques and group skills into the curriculum early in a computer science program. The difficulty in accomplishing this lies partly in teaching topics such as logic, formal specification and problem solving to beginning students. The paper discusses ideas and techniques that can be used to teach these challenging topics and to integrate group skills into an undergraduate computer science introductory course

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; problem solving; software engineering; teaching; CS1; computer science program; curriculum; formal specification; group skills; industry leaders; problem solving; problem solving methodology; software engineering techniques; teaching; undergraduate computer science introductory course; Computer industry; Computer science; Education; Formal specifications; Government; Industrial relations; Industrial training; Logic; Problem-solving; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education, 1996. Proceedings., Ninth Conference on

Conference_Location

Daytona Beach, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEE.1996.491358

Filename

491358