[Edu-sig] CS0 course

[Andre Roberge]

On 6/30/07, Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at acm.org> wrote:
> Andre Roberge wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have experience with teaching a CS0 course structured like
> > this?  Are you aware of any resources that I could use, mostly in
> > terms of assignments idea? (note: they have to be either in French, or
> > things that are short enough that I could translate them without
> > having to invest too much time)
> >
> > Thanks for your time reading this message, and I welcome any
> > suggestion you may have.
>
> Check in newsgroup fr.comp.lang.python.  It is fairly active (nowhere
> near comp.lang.python), but I'm certain there are resources.
>
> --

Thanks for the suggestion; I have been perusing fr.com.lang.python
occasionally and should probably ask a similar question there.

However, I am also well aware that the French education system is very
different than the North American one.  The Canadian and American
education, while fairly different one from another, can be considered
nearly identical when compared with the French system.  French
students generally have a much more rigorous mathematical background
at a given age; the educational approach/style is very much "formal"
rather than "informal". Also, there seems to be a lot more early
specialization - so I don't think that courses like CS0 are very
likely to exist within the French system.   However, I will check...

André

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