CSbots: Design and deployment of a robot designed for the CS1 classroom

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 428-432

  Lauwers, Tom ^a   Nourbakhsh, Illah ^a   Hamner, Emily ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Curriculum; Iterative design; Robotics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COLLEGE; CS1; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN CYCLE; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; EVALUATION RESULTS; ITERATIVE CYCLES; ITERATIVE DESIGN; ROBOT HARDWARE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TEACHING;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77955162779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1509017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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