Computer Science Courses Using Laptops
Department of Computing & Immersive Technologies, University of Northampton, UK
Corresponding author: Scott Turner, Department of Computing & Immersive Technologies, University of Northampton, UK Email: scott.turner@northampton.ac.uk, Phone: +44 (0) 1604 893028
Abstract
Traditionally computer sciences courses have been taught using laboratories full of expensive desktop computers. Although this approach may have been valid in the 80, 90s and even the early part of this decade, this paper suggests that buying, maintaining and replacing laboratories full of computers is no longer required. This paper raises the issues associated with attempting to use laptops – as thin/thick clients using virtual machines – to deliver the computer science curriculum and offers potential solutions that, in some cases, may make computer science courses at such ‘brave’ institutions more appealing.
Read More: http://journals.heacademy.ac.uk/doi/abs/10.11120/ital.2014.00011
Gary Hill, Espen Svennevik, and Scott Turner: () Computer Science Courses Using Laptops. Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences. DOI: 10.11120/ital.2014.00011
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