Ongoing Computer Science Curriculum Development

Shane Torbert

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

Fairfax County, Virginia

Outline

• Support Network• Topic Sequence• Questions

Support Network

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

Experimentation

• First Try: Pascal to C++ to Java

• Input/Output and GUIs

• Textbooks

• Pretend OOP Timeline

Topic Sequence

• First Semester: OOP, Karel, Graphics, GUIs

• Second Semester: Arrays, Files, Strings, etc.

• Third Semester: Algorithms and Analysis

• Fourth Semester: Data Structures

Java OOP Warnings

• Using LinkedList doesn’t mean kids know linked lists.

• Using TreeMap doesn’t mean kids know binary search trees.

• Using HashMap doesn’t mean kids know hashing.

• Our solution is to start with ListNode, TreeNode, hashCode.

Contact Information

• E-Mail: Mr@Torbert.com• Website: www.tjhsst.edu/~storbert