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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium -  - Computer Science for All:  The Design\, Impleme
 ntation\, and Results of a New Introductory CS Course
DTSTART:20131202T161500
DTEND:20131202T173000
DTSTAMP:20260508T135702Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Ran Liebeskind-Hadas\, Harvey Mudd College\, USA\nAbstract:\n"
 Computer Science for All" is an introductory computer science course taken
  by all first-year undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College\, regardl
 ess of their ultimate choice of major.  The course endeavors to teach stu
 dents practical skills (i.e.\, design\, implementation\, and testing of pr
 ograms) while simultaneously conveying the intellectual beauty and breadth
  of the discipline.  I will describe the philosophy\, design\, and implem
 entation of the course as well as its positive impact on student satisfact
 ion and contributing to near gender-parity in the CS major.Short biography
 : \nRan "RON" Libeskind-Hadas is the department chair and R. Michael Shana
 han Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College.  He received th
 e A.B. in applied mathematics at Harvard University and the M.S. and Ph.D.
  in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  
 His research interests are in algorithms and computational biology.  In a
 ddition\, he is interested in computer science education and currently ser
 ves on  the U.S. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council and is co-c
 hair of the Computing Research Association's Education Committee (CRA-E).
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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