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Duke Emerging Scholars in CS

Duke Emerging Scholars in CS. Susan Rodger NSF Grant 0420343 April 28-29, 2007. Background on Duke. Duke is on Semesters Most courses - 1 credit (with or without lab) Very few ½ credit courses Full semester load is 4 credits Students take 4 to 5 credits

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Duke Emerging Scholars in CS

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  1. Duke Emerging Scholars in CS Susan Rodger NSF Grant 0420343 April 28-29, 2007

  2. Background on Duke • Duke is on Semesters • Most courses - 1 credit • (with or without lab) • Very few ½ credit courses • Full semester load is 4 credits • Students take 4 to 5 credits • First year students are required to take 1 seminar course in their first year

  3. Duke’s DES-CS Program • One-year program • Three courses (3 credits total) • Fall (1 ½ credits) • CompSci 4 – Intro to programming with Alice • CompSci 18S – Problem Solving Seminar (1/2 credit) • Spring (1 ½ credits) • CompSci 6 – CS 1 – Java • CompSci 18S again • CompSci 18S counts as first-year seminar req

  4. CompSci 4 • Pre-CS 1 Course • Alice – build 3D Virtual Worlds • Workshop format with laptops(cart, BYOL) • Teach 15-30 min, then work on laptops • Work in assigned pairs, change every 3 weeks • Finish classwork for homework • Topics: Classes, Inheritance, Conditionals, Repetition, Arrays, Lists, Events, Recursion

  5. CompSci 4 Student Projects

  6. CompSci 6 • CS 1 course with Java, Eclipse • Workshop format with laptops • Teach 15-30 min, then work on laptops • Work in assigned pairs, change every 3 weeks • Finish classwork for homework • Topics: Classes, Inheritance, Arrays, Lists, Recursion, Sets, Maps, 2D arrays

  7. CompSci 6 Recursive Art

  8. CompSci 18S • Problem Solving Seminar – limited to 18 • Only Duke DES-CS students • Solve problems in groups of 3-4 • General CS areas: genomics, social networks, automata, puzzles, compression • Related topics to courses: recursion, logic, classes, design

  9. 2nd year of DES-CS • 2005-06 year – 2 peer leaders • DES-CS – Fall 2005 • 14 students, 50% female, 1 African American female • DES-CS – Spring 2006 • 10 students (9 continued, 1 new) • 2006-07 – 2 peer leaders • DES-CS – Fall 2006 • 10 students, 3 female • DES-CS – Spring 2007 • 13 students, 2 dropped, 5 added (4 females)

  10. Additional Activities • Invited Speaker - one per year • Jennifer Golbeck, Univ of Maryland (Social Networks) • Stephen Cooper, St. Joseph’s (Alice) • Field Trip – Virtual Reality Cave • Food – 3 dinners, snacks during 18S

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