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@Article{Brillinger:1970:CPI,
  author =       "P. C. Brillinger and D. D. Cowan",
  title =        "A complete package for introducing computer science",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "2",
  number =       "3",
  pages =        "118--126",
  month =        nov,
  year =         "1970",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/873641.873659",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 08:53:42 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  abstract =     "Faced with the challenge of teaching large numbers of
                 students without sacrificing quality, we have developed
                 a complete ``package'' for teaching introductory
                 computer science. This package consists of textbooks,
                 notes, problem sets, labtutorial arrangements,
                 instructional software, and visual aids for lectures,
                 all developed at the University of Waterloo.The
                 textbooks are ``FORTRAN IV WITH WATFOR AND WATFIV'' and
                 ``AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECTRE COMPUTER''. The first
                 text provides a thorough introduction to FORTRAN
                 programming, whereas the second describes a
                 hypothetical computer used for teaching purposes to
                 introduce concepts in assembly language programming and
                 machine organization. Notes supplement the texts by
                 covering elementary ideas from boolean algebra,
                 switching and automata theory, and hardware design.
                 Consequently, we endeavour in this course to introduce
                 students to various aspects of computer science, not
                 just programming.Nevertheless, programming is a major
                 part of computer science, and we feel that considerable
                 hands-on experience is essential to a student's
                 education. We provide unlimited access to the computer
                 for all students with a turnaround time between one and
                 two minutes for small jobs. This service is made
                 possible by our fast FORTRAN compiler, WATFOR, which
                 permits the computing centre to process between 3000
                 and 7000 undergraduate jobs daily on an IBM S/360 model
                 75. In addition, we simulate the SPECTRE machine via an
                 interpreter, also with unlimited access to students.For
                 lectures, we have prepared substantial lecture material
                 in a set of 35 mm slides. We feel that this mode of
                 presentation has numerous advantages for a large
                 multi-section course, some of which are better
                 visibility for students, easy review possibilities,
                 lecturer cues, uniformity throughout the various
                 sections, and improvement of presentation by new and
                 inexperienced lecturers.This course is offered to
                 approximately 1300 students yearly at Waterloo. Each
                 student has two hours of lectures per week, as well as
                 biweekly tests and problem sessions in alternate weeks.
                 In order to assist us in the development of our
                 package, we try to obtain as much student feedback as
                 possible through the distribution of an extensive
                 questionnaire to all students taking the course.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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