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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the seventeenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Pages: 27 - 33

Year of Publication: 1986

ISBN:0-89791-178-4

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Authors

Jean Buddington Martin	Jacksonville Univ., Jacksonville, FL
Kenneth E. Martin	The Univ. of North Florida, Jacksonville

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

What are the opinions and biases of students entering this course today? What do these students think they know, what do they think they should be learning? Have their opinions been altered by the technological and software trends? Do younger and older students have similar or markedly differing views and computer experiences. Can the needs of the students be met by such courses, or are the students actually more technologically literate than we believe? Noting the changes that have taken place over the last three or four years in the literacy course, the authors prepared a survey that was completed by all the students in two universities (317 students) during the first class of the fall 1985 semester. The results of that survey are the basis of this paper.

CITED BY

Mohsen Chitsaz , Karen Holbrook, The achievement of blacks in introductory computer science at a predominantly white public university, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.23 n.2, p.2-8, June 1991

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
Subjects: Curriculum
K.3.m Miscellaneous
Subjects: Computer literacy**

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This paper reports the results of a survey of 317 students entering computer literacy classes at two universities. Students were asked to report their levels of computer experience and to answer questions about their attitudes and expectations f more...

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Volume 18 , Issue 1 February 1986

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