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Introductory computer science for general education: laboratories, textbooks, and the Internet

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Many colleges and universities are experiencing the need to offer an introductory computer science course that meets some but perhaps not all the guidelines suggested for a CS 1 course. This course frequently meets institutional general education requirements and must be more than a literacy course.We discuss the implementation of such a course at Hope College. We outline the goals of the course and some novel features of the implementation, including an emphasis on graphics. We give examples of our approach to laboratories. Finally we show how we utilize the World Wide Web as a substitute for a textbook and for course administration.

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            cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
            ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 29, Issue 1
            March 1997
            388 pages
            ISSN:0097-8418
            DOI:10.1145/268085
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            • cover image ACM Conferences
              SIGCSE '97: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
              March 1997
              410 pages
              ISBN:0897918894
              DOI:10.1145/268084

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