Teaching Computing

<p>Teaching can be intimidating for beginning faculty. Some graduate schools and some computing faculty provide guidance and mentoring but many do not. Often a new faculty member is assigned to teach a course with little guidance input or feedback. <b>Teaching Computing: A Practitioner’s Perspective </b>addresses such challenges by providing a solid resource for both new and experienced computing faculty. The book serves as a practical easy-to-use resource covering a wide range of topics in a collection of focused down-to-earth chapters. </p><p>Based on the authors’ extensive teaching experience and his teaching-oriented columns that span 20 years and informed by computing-education research the book provides numerous elements that are designed to connect with teaching practitioners including:</p><ul> <li>A wide range of teaching topics and basic elements of teaching including tips and techniques</li> <li>Practical tone; the book serves as a down-to-earth practitioners’ guide</li> <li>Short focused chapters</li> <li>Coherent and convenient organization</li> <li>Mix of general educational perspectives and computing-specific elements</li> <li>Connections between teaching in general and teaching computing</li> <li>Both historical and contemporary perspectives</li> </ul><p>This book presents practical approaches tips and techniques that provide a strong starting place for new computing faculty and perspectives for reflection by seasoned faculty wishing to freshen their own teaching.</p>