Teaching an Introductory Programming Course to Non-Computer Science Majors Using SageMath

Authors : Razvan A MEZEİ

Pages : 24-28

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Publication Date : 2019-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In this paper we propose an introduction to programming course using SageMath for non-Computer Science majors. A course outline on developing and designing the course is briefly presented. Given the large number of packages available in SageMath, such a course could easily be tweaked to match the need of a diverse student population, whether it is dominated by students majoring in Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a mix of these. We also include some course evaluation results from the first iteration of the course.
Keywords : CS 0, CS 0 5, non major courses, SageMath, Python, introductory programming language, first year computing