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Turning liabilities into assets in a general education course

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Debate concerning the content of the general education Computer Science course or the "Computer Literacy" course captures the interest and divides the opinion of the Computer Science community. This paper describes three of the typical difficulties (liabilities) that instructors of a general education course encounter and how instructors may capitalize on these difficulties to transform them into assets.

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 30, Issue 1
        Mar. 1998
        376 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/274790
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        • cover image ACM Conferences
          SIGCSE '98: Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          March 1998
          396 pages
          ISBN:0897919947
          DOI:10.1145/273133

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