Title :
Teaching computing for non-IT students experience of Tallinn University of Technology
Author :
Mironova, Olga ; Vendelin, Jelena ; Amitan, Irina ; Vilipold, Juri ; Saar, Merike ; Ruutmann, Tiia
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Tallinn Univ. of Technol., Tallinn, Estonia
Abstract :
The present paper demonstrates the teaching methods and principles in informatics course for the first year non-IT students at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. The authors suggest some ways for active learning and achieving better results in the issues that are usually complicated for the beginners.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; educational institutions; teaching; Tallinn University of Technology; active learning; computing teaching; informatics course; nonIT students; Algorithm design and analysis; Engineering education; Informatics; Programming profession; Unified modeling language; Pyhton; Scratch; VBA; algorithm; computer science; informatics; non-IT; program; teaching methods;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Tallinn
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7095988
