Short Term Course On
"Introduction To Programming : A Pedagogical Approach"
17th - 22nd JUNE 2019
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow and IIT Kanpur jointly launched a platform to help improve ICT skills of faculty and students of AKTU affiliated colleges. Under this initiative, a Short Term Course on Introduction to Programming : A Pedagogical Approach was organized at IIT Kanpur during 17-22 June 2019. The objective of this STC was to help teachers sketch out a course design and strategies for teaching the course. The course was conducted by Prof. Amey Karkare and Prof. Rajat Mittal, faculty from IIT Kanpur.
Asst. Prof. Ms. Anjali Yadav from Department of Computer Science Engineering, Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida attended this STC.
During the introductory session on 17th June 2019, Prof. Rajat Mittal gave a brief introduction to the course, explained the objectives and discussed ways to tackle students.
Later during the STC, Prof. Mittal conducted a session on 3 Rs, i.e., Reduce, Reuse & Re-imagine. He also discussed ways to communicate with a computer and how to write a program.
Prof. Amey Karkare conducted sessions on the importance of manual computation and translation from manual computation to programs followed by the pedagogical strategies and teaching strategies for specific topics.
The course later covered the program design that included correctness and reasoning about programs, the continuum from problem solving to algorithm design and finally a very important session on the design of assignments and examinations.
The STC helped the participants learn how to motivate their students for learning any particular topic / subject by giving them real time examples related to functions so that student can easily understand the concept behind the functions, parts of a function, function call, return, stack, correctness of a function, local v/s global variables, scope of the function, recursion function, time complexity, sorting etc.
The STC concluded on June 22, 2019 with the group photography and; distribution of Participation Certificates.