Abstract
Though there is an increasing need for computer scientists in our society, gifted young people with strong mathematical background, who would be well-suited for a study of computer science, often do not consider this choice because they have a wrong picture of computer science in mind. In this paper we present a new concept of collaborative learning to introduce high-school students to the field of theoretical computer science. In particular, we choose the demanding field of real-time systems in order to illustrate the applicability of theoretical methods on real-world systems. Statistical results show that with our concept we are able to point out the manifoldness, beauty and challenge of this scientific area and can convince high-school students to consider computer science as a choice of study.
Abraham, E., Brauner, P., Corzilius, F., Jansen, N., Leonhardt, T., Loup, U., Bergner, N., Nellen, J., Schroeder, U.: On Collaboratively Conveying Real-time Systems to Pupils. In: McCartney, R. and Korhonen, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, Koli Calling’11. pp. 132–137. ACM, Koli, Finland (2011). https://doi.org/10.1145/2094131.2094162.