Ongoing Computer Science Curriculum Development Shane Torbert Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Fairfax County, Virginia

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Ongoing Computer Science Curriculum
DevelopmentShane TorbertThomas Jefferson High
School for Science and TechnologyFairfax
County, Virginia
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Outline

• Support Network
• Topic Sequence
• Questions

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Support Network

• Economies of Scale
• Jerry Berry, Sally Bellacqua, Mary Johnson
• Summer School Program

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Experimentation

• First Try Pascal to C to Java
• Input/Output and GUIs
• Textbooks
• Pretend OOP Timeline

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Topic Sequence

• First Semester OOP, Karel, Graphics, GUIs
• Second Semester Arrays, Files, Strings, etc.
• Third Semester Algorithms and Analysis
• Fourth Semester Data Structures

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Java OOP Warnings

• Using LinkedList doesnt mean kids know linked
  lists.
• Using TreeMap doesnt mean kids know binary
  search trees.
• Using HashMap doesnt mean kids know hashing.
• Our solution is to start with ListNode, TreeNode,
  hashCode.

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Contact Information

• E-Mail Mr_at_Torbert.com
• Website www.tjhsst.edu/storbert