• DocumentCode
    852868
  • Title

    A Seminar Looking for Traces of History

  • Author

    Mittermeir, Roland T.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. fur Inf., Univ. Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    44
  • Lastpage
    54
  • Abstract
    Students need to overcome their reluctance in understanding how, and why, informatics has evolved as it has. Toward that end, the author developed a course-designed as a seminar-in which students were required to reflect on ideas presented in seminal papers and relate them to contemporary concepts in the respective informatics subdomain. This article describes the seminar´s structure, methods, and goals.
  • Keywords
    computer science education; educational courses; history; computer science curriculum; historical traces; informatics curriculum; seminar; Civil engineering; Computer science; Engineering profession; History; Informatics; Maintenance engineering; Mechanical engineering; Portable computers; Seminars; Software maintenance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2008.34
  • Filename
    4617915