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@Article{Eccles:1976:CST,
  author =       "William J. Eccles and Brian G. Gordon",
  title =        "Computer science by {TV}",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "8",
  number =       "3",
  pages =        "54--56",
  month =        jul,
  year =         "1976",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/952991.804755",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 08:53:54 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Proceedings of the 6th SIGCSE Symposium on Computer
                 Science Education.",
  abstract =     "Our use of television to teach the first computer
                 science course for computer science majors is an
                 attempt to make sure that the students get the right
                 education. In our case it is not an attempt to enable
                 one instructor to handle a large number of students but
                 rather to handle small groups of students spread
                 throughout the state. As a result of some shortage of
                 computer science faculty, teaching beginners is often
                 considered of lesser importance than other duties. For
                 example, at one college in our state, an instructor
                 with a little programming experience was hired to teach
                 the beginners in computer science. This instructor felt
                 he was well-enough equipped to handle the course. He
                 covered the entire text and taught two languages,
                 Fortran and PL/I. Our experience shows we can't cover
                 two-thirds of that text, and then only in one language.
                 Ours is the first computer science course which our
                 majors take. It presumes no programming experience. It
                 has two goals, to introduce the student to the
                 fundamentals of computer science through a study of
                 algorithms and programming, and to start the student
                 well into PL/I. The course is taught as a one-semester
                 four-credit course which meets five times per week. We
                 made half-hour video tapes under excellent production
                 conditions to cover the material of 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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