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@Article{Tomer:1998:IMT,
  author =       "D. S. Tomer and Doug Baldwin and Christopher J. Fox",
  title =        "Integration of mathematical topics in {CS1} and {CS2}
                 (panel)",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "30",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "365",
  month =        mar,
  year =         "1998",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/274790.274334",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sat Nov 17 16:56:29 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1990.bib",
  abstract =     "The purpose of this panel is to discuss the
                 possibility of integration of the appropriate
                 mathematical topics in the CS1 and CS2 courses.
                 Practically, every university/institute offering an
                 undergraduate program in computer science offers one or
                 two courses in discrete mathematics for CS majors. It
                 seems desirable to introduce some of these topics
                 (discrete mathematics) in the beginning courses along
                 with the programming concepts --- so that, a student
                 can appreciate (and use) the theoretical concepts as
                 meaningful to the field of programming. At many places,
                 a course on discrete mathematics is taught in an
                 isolated manner with little emphasis of its topics in
                 the earlier courses in computer science. In fact, this
                 course is viewed as a mathematics requirement along
                 with the other mathematics courses, such as calculus,
                 linear algebra, and statistics etc. Many topics
                 introduced in a discrete mathematics can be best
                 utilized with CS1 and CS2 courses. Some instructors may
                 teach CS1 and CS2 courses without any regard to the
                 topics of discrete mathematics as applicable to CS1 and
                 CS2. A course on discrete mathematics designed with a
                 specific relevance to CS majors, should be integrated
                 from the very beginning at freshman level. Furthermore,
                 a course on discrete mathematics is offered at
                 sophomore/junior level when a student has already
                 completed many CS courses including CS1 and CS2. The
                 most realistic prerequisite to CS1 is college algebra
                 and it is unlikely that a incoming freshman is ready to
                 handle traditional topics of discrete mathematics
                 without some mathematical maturity (may be after
                 calculus?). The session will begin with a brief
                 presentation from each of the panelists, and then we
                 will open the floor for general discussion and debate.
                 A survey about such an integration will be conducted
                 from the audience in this session.",
  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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