The nature of computing, and hence of computer science, is changing rapidly. Many topics that now seem interesting will be obsolete or irrelevant within ten years, and our perspective on other topics will change. If a curriculum designed now is to ...

A Consortium of eight Central Ohio colleges and universities is described. The purpose of the Consortium is to provide opportunities for faculty at the participating institutions to be retrained in the field of computer science. These faculty will then ...

How do colleges and universities deal with the increasing student demand for more computer information systems education, while qualified faculty (in short supply anyway) continue to leave for industry's greener pastures? The paper presents the author's ...

An approach to teaching systems development is presented which integrates the teaching of the tools used in structured analysis with a systems development methodology. The students are taught about each tool at the place in the development methodology ...

Evaluating individual students is especially difficult in a Directed Project course because the content is dictated by the projects rather than by a fixed syllabus. By merging the evaluation process with the project management tasks, and by using ...

The vast amount of machine-dependent details which must be covered concurrently with general architecture and assembly language concepts often hinder the student from assimilating the main objectives of the ACM CS 3 course. Current instructional ...

This paper describes a student project which is a major part of a senior level Operating Systems course at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

The project consists in conceiving and implementing an entire Operating System, where user jobs ...

The panelists will describe their experiences and share their thoughts on the special problems involved in teaching computing in the environment of the liberal arts college. Time will be available for attendees to add their own comments.

Dr. Bell is director of The Computer Museum in Marlboro, Mass., a memeber of the Charles Babbage Institute Program Committee and an editorial board member for the Annals of the History of Computing. As director of The Computer Museum since 1980, she has ...

This paper discusses the feasibility of using cloze procedure to assess program reading comprehension. Two Pascal programs were prepared as cloze tests and administered to introductory computer science students. Scores on the cloze tests were found to ...

Programs written by students in an introductory Computer Science course were analyzed and patterns abstracted from them. These patterns include style of modularization, choice of constructs, choice of vocabulary, and style of communication through user-...

A preliminary PASCAL course which emphasized problem solving was designed for incoming computer science majors who were identified as being at risk. In addition, students in the required PASCAL course could transfer back to the preliminary course prior ...

This paper describes the design of a syntax checker which is being used to provide enhanced access to computing for introductory programming students. Syntax errors are detected on a microcomputer prior to submission of the job to the mainframe for ...

The teaching of computer architecture at a low level is made difficult by the complexity of the real systems which are used as examples and tools. This paper describes a processor simulation system which is intended for use at the second and third year ...

This paper discusses several programs which are used as teaching aids for teaching computer science students. The programs are animations of the internal workings of a central processing unit. They should be particularly useful in assembly language and ...

An instructional computing laboratory, consisting of about 60 high-performance, graphics-based personal workstations connected by a high-bandwidth, resource-sharing local area network, has recently become operational at Brown University. This hardware, ...

Computer science departments face an overwhelming demand from the university community for computer literacy courses. In 1982 at Rutgers University we began to offer a “hands-on” literacy course for non-computer science majors. The students learn the ...

In developing a new area of knowledge, one of the most difficult problems is working out a framework in terms of which to define the area. The emerging subject of “computer literacy” is a case in point. What should colleges and universities teach about ...

A 1983 study investigated the certification of high school computer science teachers. A major portion of the study was devoted to the identification of those computer science courses most appropriate for such teachers and, therefore, for certification ...

A discussion of an in-service course designed to give high school teachers the background needed to teach an Advanced Placement course in Computer Science is presented. The discussion outlines the decisions made regarding equipment and other facilities, ...

This paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings, but the photo-ready form was not received in time. Copies of the paper should be available upon request at the presentation. It may appear in a later issue of the SIGCSE Bulletin.

There is considerable effort to reduce the software budget devoted to the maintenance of applications systems. This effort will have the effect of improving productivity of development and maintenance programmers. This means that for a given system over ...

In summary, a rapidly changing technology, a tremendous growth of software based systems, a need to retrain current technical staff, the issue of programmer productivity, the lack of established educational programs in software engineering at local ...

We present the Computer Science Scholar's Workbench, a tool kit written in Pascal suitable for research and teaching. It has advantages over contemporary workbenches, UNIX and INTERLISP: a host to support the tool kit costs less than $3,000, the tools ...

Karan Wieckert will outline the process, conclusions and recommendations of a report published in February of 1983 by the female graduate students and technical staff in computer science and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Teaching programming to first year classes is most often considered a matter of minor importance. We think otherwise. This paper expresses our viewpoint on the matter and reports on an experiment supporting our viewpoint.