When CS 1 is biology 1: Crossdisciplinary collaboration as CS context

ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 219-223

  Dodds, Zachary ^a   Libeskind Hadas, Ran ^a   Bush, Eliot ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology 1; Contextual peers; Contextualized CS; Cs 1

Indexed keywords

CO-TAUGHT; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY;

BIOLOGY; CESIUM; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77955152289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822090.1822152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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