NDLI: A design-based introductory computer science course

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Felleisen, M.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA (Felleisen, M.)
Abstract	Summary form only given. Rice University's introductory course emphasizes design principles. It starts with the simple observation that programs are "boxes" that consume and produce data. Since nothing else is known, an engineer must systematically study the collections of consumed and produced data. The course teaches students how to describe collections of data (first in English and SCHEME, then in JAVA) and then how to construct programs systematically using these descriptions. Over the course of a semester, students get to know half a dozen different construction methods of this kind. After they are acquainted with these design methods, they understand that program development means to choose a design method carefully and to communicate the chosen method through the program design to future program readers and modifiers. The course relies on a small subset of SCHEME; at strategic points during the semester, students are also shown how the design methods apply to the development of JAVA programs. For the first six weeks, the course introduces only absolutely necessary features: function definition and application, conditional expressions, and records. At the end of this initial segment, students comfortably program with various forms of lists, trees, and graphs. The last third of the course introduces the basic elements of computer architecture and low-level languages (machine, assembly and C).
Starting Page	729
Ending Page	732
File Size	439087
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780340868
ISSN	01905848
DOI	10.1109/FIE.1997.635921
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-11-05
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer science Design methodology Assembly Teamwork Java Computer architecture Education Computer languages Data engineering Systems engineering and theory
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computer Science Applications Software

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2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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