Experiences and Results from three Years of CSE 211 Fundamentals of Computing I

Scheutz, Matthias

In this paper we report results from three offerings of CSE211, the first course in a new first-year CSE sequence as part of the new CSE 2002 undergraduate curriculum at Notre Dame (ND02), which was modeled after the suggestions of the IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001. After describing the unique challenges of ND02, we give an overview of ND02 and the role of CSE211 in it. We then summarize the course topics, organization, and infrastructure and present results from formal teacher and course evaluations and student surveys. These results are statistically analyzed to answer among others questions about the utility of open-source tools and programming environments, the utility of SCHEME as a programming language, and the degree to which students' should have prior programming experience in order to perform well in the course

@inproceedings{scheutz05fie,
  title={Experiences and Results from three Years of CSE 211 Fundamentals of Computing I},
  author={Scheutz, Matthias},
  year={2005},
  booktitle={Frontiers in Education 2005},
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/scheutz05fie.pdf}
  doi={10.1109/FIE.2005.1612176}
}