Facilitating the transition from high school programming to college computer science (abstract only)
Henry M. Walker · 1985
This paper will report on the development and pilot testing of an entry level course in Computer Applications (CAP 100) designed by an interdisciplinary team of faculty members at State University College of New York at Cortland. Procedures for development included the writing of a proposal by an interdisciplinary team of faculty members, a faculty forum attended by at least 60 faculty members, a year's developmental work by a Computer Studies committee, and a summer's intensive development by an interdisciplinary team of faculty. The course was designed to introduce students in all disciplines to both the mainframes and microcomputers on campus. It included introductions to typical applications software on the microcomputer, familiarization of students with various disk operating systems, and an entry level experience with a programming language.