Poster summarizing course redesign activities for CS 46A/B: Introduction to Computer Science.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/davinci_itcr2014/1006/thumbnail.jp

Horstmann, Cay

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CS 46A/B: Introduction to Computer Science Course Redesign

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 “da Vinci Day” Recognizing Teaching Innovation at SJSU Innovative Teaching – Course Redesign project (ITCR) Cay Horstmann Computer Science Department, College of Science Basic	  skills	  and	  concepts	  of	  computer	  programming	  in	  an	  object-­‐oriented	  approach	  using	  Java.	  Classes,	  methods	  and	  argument	  passing,	  control	  structures,	  itera=on.	  Basic	  graphical	  user	  interface	  programming.	  Problem	  solving,	  class	  discovery	  and	  stepwise	  reﬁnement.	  Programming	  and	  documenta=on	  style.	  Stacks	  and	  queues,	  recursion,	  lists,	  dynamic	  arrays,	  binary	  search	  trees.	  Itera=on	  over	  collec=ons.	  Hashing.	  Searching,	  elementary	  sor=ng.	  Big-­‐O	  nota=on.	  Standard	  collec=on	  classes.	  Weekly	  hands-­‐on	  ac=vity.	  CS 46A/B:  Introduction to Computer Science Brief description of the course and its place in the curriculum Summary of course re-design activities CS	  46A/B	  has	  been	  converted	  to	  a	  large	  lecture	  with	  small	  group	  labs.	  	  This	  would	  not	  have	  been	  possible	  without	  leveraging	  special	  features	  of	  Canvas,	  our	  learning	  management	  system.	  	  More	  speciﬁcally,	  I	  will	  make	  use	  of	  Canvas’s	  applica=on	  programming	  interface	  (API)	  in	  order	  to:	  	  	  (1)  give	  students	  clear	  informa=on	  about	  their	  class	  performance	  and	  about	  what	  they	  can	  do	  to	  improve;	  (2)  enable	  professors	  to	  iden=fy	  and	  easily	  no=fy	  at-­‐risk	  students	  early	  in	  the	  course,	  and	  to	  monitor	  the	  eﬃcacy	  of	  their	  mentoring;	  and	  	  (3)  improve	  the	  grading	  interface	  so	  that	  automa=cally	  graded	  programming	  assignments	  are	  entered	  into	  the	  course	  grade-­‐book,	  freeing	  the	  graders	  to	  give	  students	  feedback	  on	  the	  quality	  of	  their	  code.	  CS	  46A	  and	  CS	  46B	  are	  the	  founda=onal	  courses	  in	  the	  Computer	  Science	  curriculum,	  covering	  basic	  programming	  and	  data	  structures.	  	  Most	  students	  are	  our	  majors,	  but	  roughly	  30%	  are	  majors	  in	  other	  departments	  in	  need	  of	  	  programming	  skills	  for	  their	  work.	  

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