hcc@cs.olemiss.edu (Conrad Cunningham) (02/23/91)
My department has "sophomore" (second year) core course called File Systems, modeled more or less according to the ACM CS5 guidelines. The course follows our introductory sequence (beginning programming and data structures using Pascal) and uses Pascal for the laboratory exercises. We seek to emphasize file design techniques and implementation structures/algorithms. I have taught the course two of the past six offerings. Many students seem to view this course as dry, uninteresting, and not a particularly important addition to their educations in 1991. (1) I am looking for ways to change this course to make it more interesting and useful and was wondering how other computer science departments are handling this material in the 1990's. Do you have separate CS5-like courses or is the material folded into other courses? Is your CS5 course part of the required "core"? At what level is the material taught? What languages/environments do you use for practical exercises? How do they relate to other courses in the curriculum? (2) We are considering a textbook change and would appreciate any recommendations you might have. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- H. Conrad Cunningham | Dept. of Computer & Info. Sci., Univ. of Mississippi Tel: (601) 232-5358 | 302 Weir Hall, University, MS 38677 U.S.A. Fax: (601) 232-7010 | Email: cunningham@cs.olemiss.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------