Breadth-last technical electives: integrating the CS core via computer games and mobile robotics

  • Authors:
  • William W. White;Jerry B. Weinberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Southern illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA;Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the concept of breadth-last technical elective courses, which are designed to assist undergraduate CS students in integrating their entire core curriculum into a coherent whole at the end of their degree programs. Specific breadth-last courses in intelligent mobile robotics and computer game development have been implemented and are presented here to demonstrate the pedagogical concepts being discussed.