Education: Preparing Computer Science Students for the Robotics Revolution.

The author discusses how robotics innovations may lead to curriculum changes in computer science (CS) courses. The author comments on how CS courses have been affected by innovations and predicts growth in the development of robots. He comments that development of robotics is being negatively affect...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 8; pp. 27 - 30
Autor principal:	Touretzky, David S.
Formato:	Opinion
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Aug2010
Materias:	Study & teaching of robotics Curriculum change Computer science education Technological innovations Robotics software Application software
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Sumario:	The author discusses how robotics innovations may lead to curriculum changes in computer science (CS) courses. The author comments on how CS courses have been affected by innovations and predicts growth in the development of robots. He comments that development of robotics is being negatively affected by misconceptions regarding robotics education and the lack of robotics platforms and user-friendly robotics software for higher education CS courses.