Design and Pedagogy of the Introductory Programming Course
Design and Pedagogy of the Introductory Programming Course. Instructor: Prof. Abhiram G. Ranade, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay. This course will consider the following questions: How do you design the syllabus for an introductory programming course? How do you teach it so that it captures the attention of students? How do you design examinations, and programming assignments which are fair and encourage students to learn in the desired manner? We will sketch out a course design, and strategies for teaching the course. It will use the C++ languages, but most ideas will be independent of the language.
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Lecture 07 - Basic Ideas in our Approach.2: More Examples
Examples of translating manual algorithms to computer programs - determining if a sequence of parentheses is balanced, 8-queens problem. Introspection and precise statement of manual algorithm, translation of precise description to computer program.