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Topological sorting as a tool in curriculum planning

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Topological sorting provides a partial ordering for a group of data items for which a partial linear ordering exists.

Our use of the topological sorting algorithm has been in the logical organization of curriculum content. Curriculum content can vary from organizing a forty minute lecture to planning a four year sequence of courses. Application of topological sorting to the curriculum content results in a logical organization of the concepts, which may or may not be unique. Users of TOPSORT claim a major time savings in the long run. Backtracking to cover prerequisite concepts in teaching is reduced.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 8, Issue 3
          Proceedings of the 6th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
          July 1976
          146 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/952991
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            SIGCSE '76: Proceedings of the sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
            September 1976
            154 pages
            ISBN:9781450374453
            DOI:10.1145/800144

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