ABSTRACT
Teaching can be intimidating for beginning faculty. Some graduate schools and some computing faculty provide guidance and mentoring, but many do not. Often, a new faculty member is assigned to teach a course, with little guidance, input, or feedback. Teaching Computing: A Practitioner’s Perspective addresses such challenges by providing a solid resource for both new and experienced computing faculty. The book serves as a practical, easy-to-use resource, covering a wide range of topics in a collection of focused down-to-earth chapters.
Based on the authors’ extensive teaching experience and his teaching-oriented columns that span 20 years, and informed by computing-education research, the book provides numerous elements that are designed to connect with teaching practitioners, including:
- A wide range of teaching topics and basic elements of teaching, including tips and techniques
- Practical tone; the book serves as a down-to-earth practitioners’ guide
- Short, focused chapters
- Coherent and convenient organization
- Mix of general educational perspectives and computing-specific elements
- Connections between teaching in general and teaching computing
- Both historical and contemporary perspectives
This book presents practical approaches, tips, and techniques that provide a strong starting place for new computing faculty and perspectives for reflection by seasoned faculty wishing to freshen their own teaching.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|12 pages
Introduction
part 2|36 pages
Curricular Development
part 3|50 pages
Courses and the Computing Curricula in Context
part 4|30 pages
Curricular Issues
part 5|32 pages
Computing and Mathematics
part 6|52 pages
In the Classroom: Basics, Lab-based, Active Learning, Flipped Classrooms
part 7|46 pages
Preparing a Course
part 8|45 pages
Instructors’ Roles, Inside and Outside the Classroom
part 9|44 pages
Exercises and Assignments
part 10|24 pages
tudent Progress in Courses
part 11|15 pages
Assessment and Grading
part 12|31 pages
Outreach and Public Relations
part 13|30 pages
Additional Topics