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That's what I'm saying they shouldn't do: if your intro class flunks a bunch of students, you need another intro class before your intro class. If students are
by leif 15y ago
That's what I'm saying they shouldn't do: if your intro class flunks a bunch of students, you need another intro class before your intro class. If students aren't learning anything in a class, let them skip it or test out of it. Maybe this is too expensive, I don't know, I'm dealing with ideals right now.
- billswift 15y agoI don't know if they are still doing it, but 12 years ago the University of Maryland had something like this. They had CMSC106 Introduction to C and CMSC107 Introduction to Unix classes that had no credit towards the major, but allowed those interested a gentler introduction to computer science.
- chopsueyar 15y agoThere is a huge gap between high school and college curriculum for many subjects. There is a huge gap between colleges and their curriculum, too. There are no standards in education with regard to curriculum.
- ido 15y agoWhat for? There is no shortage of cs students, and you need to filter them at some point anyway - might as well be with the intro to cs course.