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Designing closed laboratories for a computer science course

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A recent trend has been to accompany Computer Science courses by "closed laboratories" where students carried out tasks with supervision and guidance. This paper presents a methodology for designing a complete sequence of laboratories to support the instruction in a course. The design considers both the technical concepts to be conveyed and the learning experiences through which students learn. We demonstrate the way the methodology has been used to design the lab sequence for a Pascal-based CS1 course.

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 28, Issue 1
        March 1996
        379 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/236462
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        • cover image ACM Conferences
          SIGCSE '96: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          March 1996
          447 pages
          ISBN:089791757X
          DOI:10.1145/236452

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