Integrating personal digital assistants (PDAs) into a computer science curriculum

Author

Alford, Kenneth L. ; Ruocc, A.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., US Mil. Acad., West Point, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

During the Fall 2000 semester, 44 junior and senior computer science majors at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York were issued personal digital assistants (PDAs) and were challenged to find useful ways to incorporate them into their curriculum and student life. Seniors were issued PDAs with 8 megabytes of RAM; juniors were issued PDAs with 2 megabytes of RAM. The West Point cadets rose to the occasion and quickly embraced this new technology. This effort has been successful and discussions are currently underway to determine if all Academy cadets, regardless of their program of study, should purchase PDAs

Keywords

computer science education; educational computing; educational courses; notebook computers; 2 MB; 8 MB; PDAs; RAM; USA; United States Military Academy; computer science curriculum; curriculum; personal digital assistants integration; student; Books; Computer science; Costs; Educational institutions; Hardware; Military computing; Operating systems; Personal digital assistants; Programming profession; Read-write memory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. 31st Annual

Conference_Location

Reno, NV

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6669-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2001.963672

Filename

963672