Affiliation:
1. Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, PO Box 43104, Lubbock TX
Abstract
This paper discusses the implementation and evolution over a five-year period of a breadth-first introductory computer science course which has both lectures and structured, closed laboratory sessions. This course significantly increased both the retention and passing rates for the next computer course (which emphasizes programming), and computer science graduation rates.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Cited by
6 articles.
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