Experiments with the use of popular press in the computer science curriculum
Proceedings of the thirty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Turing
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The authors have instituted two new elective seminar courses at their institution that attempt to address the issue of declining enrollments in computer science courses. These changes involve a deliberate attempt to better demonstrate the inherent multi-disciplinary nature of computing and its connections to the broader world. More specifically, we illustrate how a study of Alan Turing's work and life and a study of cryptography can each be used to demonstrate the inherent importance of computing in forming the world as we know it. The courses described in this paper are part of a first year seminar program at the authors' institution, but could easily be considered as elective courses in a CS curriculum.