Turning liabilities into assets in a general education course

Authors:
Gloria Childress Townsend
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
Venue:
SIGCSE '98 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1998

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Abstract

Debate concerning the content of the general education Computer Science course or the "Computer Literacy" course captures the interest and divides the opinion of the Computer Science community. This paper describes three of the typical difficulties (liabilities) that instructors of a general education course encounter and how instructors may capitalize on these difficulties to transform them into assets.