http://www.yup.com/articles/tag/education?tag=education en-us 40 Advanced Web Services <p>Rethinking CS101 is a project to develop a curriculum for the first course in computer science based around the idea of computation as interaction.</p> <blockquote> Perhaps the most fundamental idea in modern computer science is that of interactive processes. Computation is embedded in a (physical or virtual) world; its role is to interact with that world to produce desired behavior. While von Neumann serial programming is based on the idea that &#8220;computation as calculation&#8221; uses inputs at the beginning to produce outputs at the end. &#8220;Computation as interaction&#8221; treats inputs as things that are monitored and outputs as actions that are taken over the lifetime of an ongoing process. By beginning with a decomposition in terms of interacting computational processes, we can teach our students a model of the world much closer to the one that underlies the thinking of most computer professionals. </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.cs101.org">Rethinking CS101</a></p> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:11:00 -0400 urn:uuid:9ccfcc87-c0a5-424c-abc7-7c0222217c54 Daniel Butler http://www.yup.com/articles/2006/04/21/rethinking-computer-science-in-college Programming science education