• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Design process for a non-majors computing course
  • Contributor: Guzdial, Mark; Forte, Andrea
  • imprint: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2005
  • Published in: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1145/1047124.1047468
  • ISSN: 0097-8418
  • Keywords: General Earth and Planetary Sciences ; General Environmental Science
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  • Description: <jats:p>There is growing interest in computing courses for non-CS majors. We have recently built such a course that has met with positive response. We describe our design process, which includes involvement of stakeholders and identifying a context that facilitates learning. We present evaluation results on success rates (approximately 90% of the students earn an A, B, or C) and impact of the course on students over time (80% report that the class has influenced them more than a semester later).</jats:p>