MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Rethinking CS101:
How Robots Revolutionize Introductory Computer Programming
Lynn Andrea Stein
MIT, EECS and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Monday, May 13, 1996
4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
EECS Colloquium
Abstract
Introductory computer science education is entrenched in an outdated
computational model. Although it corresponds neither to our computing
environments nor to our work, we insist on teaching our introductory
students computation-as-calculation, a mathematical problem-solving
view of the role of the computer program. We can dramatically improve
this situation--and, as a corollary, all of undergraduate computer
science--by focusing on the kind of dynamic, interactive, inherently
parallel computation that occurs in spreadsheets and video games, web
applications and robots.
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