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

Referred Journals and Conferences

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

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