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Computer, Analog

A  digital computer  employs physical device-states as symbols, but an  analog computer  employs them as models. That is, in a  digital computer  the on-off states of transistor devices are used to stand for 0s and 1s, which are made stand for phenomena of interest, such as words, data, pixels, or the like; in an  analog computer , the continuously variable states of various electronic devices are made to behave like some physical system of interest. A rough parallel would be using pencil-and-paper mathematics to determine the carrying capacity of an arch design (symbolic computing) versus building a scale model out of balsawood and seeing how much weight it will bear (analog computing). A more precise definition of analog computing is as follows: An analog computer models the behaviors of smoothly varying mathematical variables — usually representing physical phenomena such as temperatures, pressures, or velocities — by translating these variables into (usually) voltages or gear movem
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Teaching method principles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from  Teaching methods ) Jump to navigation Jump to search A  teaching method  comprises the principles and methods used by  teachers  to enable student  learning . These strategies are determined partly on subject matter to be taught and partly by the nature of the learner. For a particular  teaching  method to be appropriate and efficient it has take into account the learner, the nature of the subject matter, and the type of learning it is supposed to bring about. [1] The approaches for teaching can be broadly classified into teacher-centered and student-centered. In a teacher-centered (authoritarian) approach to learning, teachers are the main  authority  figure in this model. Students are viewed as "empty vessels" whose primary role is to passively receive  information  (via lectures and direct instruction) with an end goal of testing and assessment. It is the primary role of teachers to pass  knowledge  and  information  
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Computer science education or computing education

Computing education research Education      al research  on computing and  teaching methods  in computer science is usually known as  Computing Education Research . [5] [17]  The  Association for Computing Machinery  (ACM) runs a  Special Interest Group  (SIG) on Computer science education known as  SIGCSE  which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018, making it one of the oldest and longest running ACM Special Interest Groups. [18] An outcome of computing education research are  Parsons problems . [ citation needed ] Gender perspectives in computer science education In many countries, there is a significant gender gap in computer science education. In 2015, 15.3% of computer science students graduating from non-doctoral granting institutions in the US were women while at doctoral granting institutions, the figure was 16.6%. [19]  The number of female PhD recipients in the US was 19.3% in 2018. [20]  In almost everywhere in the world, less than 20% of the computer science graduates ar
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