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[cs_prof]

I invite fellow college teaches to share your experience and findings in teaching programming courses at the low-undergraduate level for CS/IT majors.
I am not going to lead this discussion, though. Hopefully, it will be self-driven.

Still to place focus on some important points, I propose to begin with the following discussion questions:

1. How is your course organized and why? How many upper-level units do you have? What is a typical week in your course?
2. What is your typical weekly assignment?
3. Do you encourage students to collaborate? How do you use online discussion and/or online collaboration tools in your class?
4. What are your typical midterm and final exams? How are they organized?
5. Do you think it is important to develop teamwork skills in students in such courses? Do you give any team programming assignments?
6. Do you offer programming projects that last longer than one week?
7. Do you introduce in your assignments any material that is lying outside computer science?