Programming Stream Work in Progress 20111

Programming Stream | Market Demand | Course Content | Work in Progress | Members | Issues

Strategy

1. marketing through transparency
2. comprehensive web presence with visible depth
3. student-centered teaching techniques
4. recent hard-copy publication presence

Implementation Details

• course design for our particular spectrum of students
  • four-stage exposure of course material
    • lectures
    • in-class exercises
    • workshops
    • assignments - real-world related to maximize motivation
  • tutorial support for weakly structured domains (Jordan and Chris)
    • examples only
    • examples and problems
    • problems only
• public course web sites (editable by instructors alone)
  • comprehensive view of the course material
    • lecture notes
    • in-class exercises
    • workshop problems
    • assignment specifications
    • practice problems
  • creative commons attribution only 2.5 license - faculty copyright
  • readily upgradable from semester to semester
  • integration of course web sites within the SCS Drupal site
    • should any sections be excluded
• Moodle learning management system - password protected (editable by instructors alone)
  • assignment submission mechanism
  • grade reporting mechanism
  • forums and discussion boards
• wikis (editable by registered members)
  • open to both student and faculty input
  • require a common format to maximize student use
  • require a common host
• course notes
  • better to present material in chunks
  • need to be up-to-date with current standards
  • we should maximize use of colour coding to facilitate clarity on the web view

Implementation Status

Course	Web Site	In-Class	Workshops	Targeted Tutorials	Assignments	SCS Integration	Remarks
BTP100	btp100	pages/exercises	pages/workshops	to be considered	pages/assignments	to be discussed	open
OOP244	oop244	pages/exercises	pages/workshops	to be completed	pages/assignments	Fall 2011	2011 Edition ?
BTP200	btp200	pages/exercises	pages/workshops	to be considered	pages/assignments	to be discussed	open
BTP300	btp300	pages/exercises	pages/workshops	deferred	pages/assignments	Fall 2011	needs reordering
GAM666	gam666	deferred	to be implemented	deferred	self-selected topics	Fall 2011	needs compression

Publications

Course Notes

The TEL Series on Software Development

• Initially a four volume series
• Up to date with current standards
• Public web pages converted to printed form
• Designed for use in tests and exams as well as lectures
• Printed at Newnham and sold in the Bookstore
• Affordable to our students
• Colour versions can be printed once the colour costing drops
• Creative Commons Attribution only 2.5 license

Completion Status

Title	Candidate Courses	Remarks	Printed
Introduction to the C Language	IPC144 BTP100	content to be reviewed
Introduction to C++ for C Programmers	OOP244 BTP200	December 2010 edition	completed
Object-Oriented Programming Using C++	OOP344 BTP300	content to be reorganized
Introduction to Game Programming for C++ Programmers	GAM666 DPS901	content to be compressed

Journals and Conferences

Anastasiade, J., and Szalwinski, C. 2010. Building Computer-based Tutors to Help Learners Solve Ill-Structured Problems. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2010. Toronto, ON: AACE.

Szalwinski, C. M. 2011. An Open Instructional Framework for Game Programming Students. ACM Transactions on Computing Education. (submitted for publication).

Software Support

C and C++ Courses

• nled
• Borland - should we remove this compiler from our course notes
• Visual Studio 2010
• GNU gcc, g++
• Frameworks
  • fwk4gps