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
  • should be up-to-date with current standards
  • colour coding is readily available
  • we should maximize its use to facilitate clarity

Implementation Status

Course Code	Web Site	In-Class	Workshops	Tutorial Support	Assignments	SCS Integration	Remarks
BTP100	btp100	btp100/pages/exercises	btp100/pages/workshops	to be considered	btp100/pages/assignments	to be considered	on schedule
BTP200	btp200	btp200/pages/exercises	btp200/pages/workshops	to be considered	btp200/pages/assignments	to be considered	on schedule
BTP300	btp300	btp300/pages/exercises	btp300/pages/workshops	to be considered	btp300/pages/assignments	to be considered	well ahead
OOP244	oop244	oop244/pages/exercises	oop244/pages/workshops	partially implementented	oop244/pages/assignments	to be considered	on schedule
GAM666	gam666	to be considered	to be implemented	to be considered	to be considered	to be considered	on schedule

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

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