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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin archive
Volume 37 , Issue 4 (December 2005) table of contents

COLUMN: Reviewed Papers table of contents

Pages: 69 - 73

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:0097-8418

Author

Nell Dale

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In the spring of 2004, 351 faculty members responded to a survey concerning the content and topic emphasis in the first course in computing. The survey targeted two different groups of faculty, one SIGCSE members and the other faculty who had contacted a medium-sized publisher of Computer Science textbooks. The questions fell into five categories: design methodology, general programming issues, object-oriented issues, software engineering issues, and other topics. The results are analyzed and, where possible, some conclusions are drawn.

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	1	SurveySuite Software, the University of Virginia: http://intercom.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/intercom/SurveySuite/ss_index.pl
	2	N. Dale, Survey Results, SIGCSE group: www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ndale/ContentResults.html
	3	N. Dale, Survey Results, publisher's list group: www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ndale/ContentResults2.html
	4	ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force (1991). Computing Curricula 1991. New York: ACM Press.

CITED BY 3

	Stewart Crawford , Elizabeth Boese, ActionScript: a gentle introduction to programming, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v.21 n.3, p.156-168, February 2006
	Nell B. Dale, Most difficult topics in CS1: results of an online survey of educators, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.38 n.2, June 2006
	Carsten Schulte , Jens Bennedsen, What do teachers teach in introductory programming?, Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Computing education research, September 09-10, 2006, Canterbury, United Kingdom