From Pascal to C++:
A Workshop for Secondary School Teachers of Computer Science

Stonehill College
August 1998 - May 2000

Coordinators:

Ralph Bravaco, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Shai Simonson, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation

The following materials are the outgrowth of a series of summer workshops for secondary school teachers of Computer Science.  The goal of these workshops was to introduce C++ and object oriented programming to a group of teachers already fluent in some programming language (most likely Pascal).  However, these resources can be of use to anyone with a basic knowledge of programming and the motivation to learn C++ and the object paradigm.    The only prerequisite is a knowledge of some programming language, like C , Pascal or even BASIC.

The text materials developed for the workshop can be accessed through the following links:

Complete solutions to all problems in the text are available to instructors on request.

Workshop participants were asked to design a case study project, similar but smaller in scale to the AP BigInt case study. The case studies develop[ed during the workshops should be usable by secondary school teachers of C++. 

The following links lead to some case studies designed by workshop participants.

 

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For more information or to request a solutions manual contact:

Ralph Bravaco
Stonehill College
North Easton, MA 02357
508 - 565 - 1077

Shai Simonson
Stonehill College
North Easton, MA 02357
508 - 565 - 1008

 

Workshops were funded by National Science Foundation Teacher Enhancement Grant number ESI- 9731061