ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) (08/07/87)
We don't do this, but does anyone use the organization of having a single
concepts-only introductory course which all students are required to take along
with one of several available language-only courses? The concepts-only course
might meet three times a week while the language-only courses might start in
the second week and meet initially two or three times a week with this dropping
to once a week once necessary preliminaries ( basic language constructs) were
done. Exams would be given in the concepts-only course while programming
assignments would be given and collected in the language-only courses.
If you do this or something like it, what has been your experience? If you
don't do this, what do you think of this organization? Of course, there is a
major problem in coordinating the various courses.