| Presentation | 2009-11-06 Implementation and Evaluation of Education for Developing Algorithmic Thinking for Students in Computer Science Yasushi FUWA, Hisayoshi KUNIMUNE, Mizue KAYAMA, Masaaki NIIMURA, Hidetoshi MIYAO, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Previously, the most common approach for university engineering students has been to teach courses focused on programming languages, and have students learn algorithms in an ancillary fashion within that context. As a result, some students have not attained sufficient ability in algorithmic thinking. Since the 2008 academic year, we have been implementing a course which teaches algorithms in the first term for freshmen, before they learn programming languages. This course does not use programming languages at all. The students devise processing procedures for implementing the problems they are given, and describe them in Japanese using a bullet point format. In this presentation, we describe the course based on this new approach, and evaluate it based on a comparison with students prior to the 2008 who did not take the course. In addition, the problems in the 2008 course covered only a limited number of fields, and some students were unable to develop algorithms for problems in other fields. Therefore a more diverse range of problems was covered the 2009 course, and we evaluate that strategy. We also attempt to evaluate the effects of this course on the course in programming languages which follows it. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Algorithmic Thinking / Information Education / Programming Education |
| Paper # | ET2009-49 |
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| Conference Date | 2009/10/30(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Implementation and Evaluation of Education for Developing Algorithmic Thinking for Students in Computer Science |
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| Keyword(1) | Algorithmic Thinking |
| Keyword(2) | Information Education |
| Keyword(3) | Programming Education |
| 1st Author's Name | Yasushi FUWA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology Shinshu University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hisayoshi KUNIMUNE |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering Shinshu University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Mizue KAYAMA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering Shinshu University |
| 4th Author's Name | Masaaki NIIMURA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology Shinshu University |
| 5th Author's Name | Hidetoshi MIYAO |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering Shinshu University |
| Date | 2009-11-06 |
| Paper # | ET2009-49 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.109 |
| Number (no) | 268 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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