Interdisciplinary Connections to CS

Have students design projects based on content from their other courses, and have them brainstorm how the code they write might be useful in a variety of fields. This broadens their understanding of CS’s many applications.

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Give students assignments where students have to make their computational results understandable to their customer, an important skill for industry computation across fields.

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Bring in real stories about software, specifically games, sometimes going wrong! It is important for students to learn that development usually takes more than just a day and there is no ultimately correct solution.

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Give students a caesar cipher to reveal a picture or message in order to teach how characters can be treated as numbers and to reinforce string manipulation.

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Teach hierarchical task analysis using Requirement Cards to sort through 100 requirements engineers have created for a robot cleaning up a nuclear disaster.

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