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 depth
3. student-centered teaching techniques
4. hard copy and e-copy publication presence with depth

Implementation Details

• public course web sites
  • comprehensive - full view of course material
    • lecture notes
    • exercises
    • practice problems
    • assignment specifications
  • open to the public as a marketing tool
  • editable by faculty alone
  • creative commons attribution only 2.5 license
  • faculty copyright
• integration of the public web sites within the SCS Drupal site
• Moodle learning management system - password protected
  • assignment submissions
  • grade reporting
  • forums and discussion boards
• wikis
  • open for editing to registered members
• course design for our particular cross-section of students
  • in-class exercises
  • workshops
  • tutorial support for weakly structured domains (Jordan and Chris)
    • examples only
    • examples and problems
    • problems only
  • assignments - real-world related to maximize motivation
• course notes

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

Course Notes

The TEL Series on Software Development

• Minimum four volume series
• Up to date with current standards
• Conversion of public web pages to printed form
• Designed for use in tests and exams
• Printed at Newnham and sold in the Bookstore
• Minimal cost for our students
• Colour versions can be printed once the cost 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