Teaching Computing to Everyone

Judson Collier

Mark Guzdial

May 1, 2009

Georgia Institute of Technology has required every undergraduate on campus to take a course in computing. Here are the lessons learned from the practice, now almost 10 years old, of creating high-demand computer science courses for non-computing majors.

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