A "communication skills for computer scientists" course

Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-69

  Blume, Lil ^a   Baecker, Ron ^a   Collins, Christopher ^a   Donohue, Aran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

CC 2001; Communication skills; Interpersonal communications; Literacy; Speaking; Writing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SKILLS; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; INTEGRAL PART; INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA; INTERPERSONAL SKILLS; PUBLIC SPEAKING; QUANTITATIVE DATA; UNDERGRADUATE COURSES; UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO; WEB TECHNOLOGIES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77049115206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1562877.1562903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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