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It was a CS-I course	by dennismv	2009-04-10 22:13:55
My only question: Was this just an arbitrary	by Adiplomat	2009-04-10 22:18:36
I'd be surprised if a 1st year CS course involved	by kahuana	2009-04-10 22:27:23
One of my points is, though, that unless	by Adiplomat	2009-04-10 22:31:10
I think some low level skill set is desirable	by dennismv	2009-04-10 22:47:18
In particular I would like to see this one concepts (with all its applications) taught to CS-I and CS-II students: * computer memory is one big 1-dimentional array. By applications I mean things like these: * variables and how and where they are stored in memory * arrays (which are like large variables!!) * pointers (which are variables afterall!) It seems that with our current curriculum students see the above three concepts as completely different and separate from each other, when they are all neatly and beautifully come out of the "main" concept of memory. Another "main" concept is how functions work -- exactly how they work. From that concept you can understand buffer overflows and probably a few other things. It is a more advanced concept though. But with these two concepts I think you get a much deeper understanding of computer science than is usually taught . . . at erm .. our place of knowledge.
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I like the idea of teaching from first principles	by romandas	2009-04-11 19:48:01

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