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Introducing practical experience into curriculum 68 through integration of courses

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A course which will give students some practical experience with large programming problems is described, The course combines the material from five separate courses from Curriculum 68. The material is presented in conjunction with a major programming project which is the unifying ingredient of the course. The project provides the student with immediate and realistic applications of the ideas and topics presented in the course.

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 6, Issue 1
        Proceedings of the 4th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
        February 1974
        195 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/953057
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          SIGCSE '74: Proceedings of the fourth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          January 1974
          194 pages
          ISBN:9781450374835
          DOI:10.1145/800183

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