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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

Norfolk, Virginia, USA

SESSION: New curricular directions table of contents

Pages: 120 - 124

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-798-2

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Qusay H. Mahmoud	University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Wlodek Dobosiewicz	University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
David Swayne	University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In this paper we describe our experience in the design and teaching of a new evolutionary introductory programming course in a new Distributed Computing and Communications Systems Technology program at the University of Guelph-Humber. This course is evolutionary and innovative because it integrates the use of HTML, JavaScript, and Java in a one-semester introductory computer programming course. This is a marked departure from the use of a single conventional, general purpose, programming language such as Java or C++. The course is designed with two goals in mind: to improve the students experience in their first computer programming; and to achieve retention in the new program.

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