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Should non-computer science (CS) majors learn to program? While the 1999 National Academy of Sciences report “Being Fluent with Information Technology” advocates teaching programming as part of the CS-0 experience, we challenge the assumptions upon which this recommendation rests. Our extensive review of the NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) and SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) conference proceedings from 1979 to 1998 clearly shows a decline in the number of articles in which programming is taught in CS-0 courses. Furthermore, based upon learning theory literature, we argue that conceptual understanding of computing can be acquired without learning to program. Finally, we describe our criterion-referenced, mastery-model course that prepares 1800 students per semester for a computing future that is constantly changing
Published in:
Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. FIE 2000. 30th Annual
(Volume:1
)
Date of Conference: 2000
- Page(s):
- T2B/7 - T2B11 vol.1
- Meeting Date :
- 18 Oct 2000-21 Oct 2000
- ISSN :
- 0190-5848
- Print ISBN:
- 0-7803-6424-4
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 6839618
- Conference Location :
- Kansas City, MO
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/FIE.2000.897590
- Product Type:
- Conference Publications
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