Teaching entering students to think like computer scientists
Elise H. Turner, Roy M. Turner · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 2005
This paper describes a new course developed at University of Maine to help students better understand the discipline of computer science and to aid us in recruiting and retaining majors. The course verview of computer science, but also, through focusing on particular topics at an advanced level, begins to teach students how computer scientists think about problems. The course has been taught in Fall 2002, 2003 and 2004. This paper describes the course and discusses our results from the first two years.