Informatics Curricula and Teaching Methods

Several aspects of informatics curricula and teaching methods at the university level are reported in this volume, including: *Challenges in defining an international curriculum; *The diversity in informatics curricula; *Computing programs for scientists and engineers; *Patterns of curriculum design; *Student interaction; *Teaching of programming; *Peer review in education. This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the Working Conference on Informatics Curricula, Teaching Methods and Best Practice (ICTEM 2002), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 3.2, and held in Florianópolis, Brazil in July 2002.

The working groups were organized in three parallel tracks. Working Group 1 discussed the "Directions and Challenges in Informatics Education". The focus of Working Group 2 was "Teaching Programming and Problem Solving". Working Group 3 discussed "Computing: The Shape of an Evolving Discipline."

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Foreword from the Program Chair. Preface. Conference Committees. Acknowledgements. Benchmark Standards for Computing in the UK; A. McGettrick. Student Experiments in Object-Oriented Modeling; T. Brinda. Input/Output for CS1 Course in Java; E.B. Koffman. Learning Programming by Solving Problems; A.N. Kumar. Teaching of Programming with a Programmer's Theory of Programming; J. Reinfelds. Teaching Programming Broadly and Deeply: The Kernel Language Approach; P. Van Roy, S. Haridi. Programming Strategies using an Actor-Based Environment; R.S. Wazlawick, A.C. Mariani. A Computing Program for Scientists and Engineers - What is The Core of Computing; R. Denzer. Patterns of Curriculum Design; D. Blank, D. Kumar. Variations in Computing Science's Disciplinary Diversity; L.E. Merkle, R.E. Mercer. Variety in Views of University Curriculum Schemes for Informatics/Computing/ICT; F. Mulder, K. Lemmen, M. van Veen. Reports of the Working Groups: Directions and Challenges in Informatics Education; J. Hughes, A. McGettrick, E.F. Barbosa, J. Kaasboll, V.M. Kern, A.P. Ludtke Ferreira, E. Macome, J. Martins, C.A. de Oliveira, A.I. Orth, R. Sadananda, E. da Silva, R. Tori. Teaching Programming and Problem Solving; E. Koffmann, T. Brinda, J. Alvarez, A. Kumar, M.L.B. Lisboa, J. Reinfelds, P. Van Roy, R.S. Wazlawick. Computing: The Shape of an Evolving Discipline; L. Cassel, G. Davies, D. Kumar, R. Denzer, A. Hacquebard, R. LeBlanc, L.E. Merkle, F. Mulder, Z. Panian, R. Reis, E. Roberts, P. Rocchi, M. van Veen, A.F. Zorzo. Author Index.