Any thoughts on this curriculum compared to a regular CS curriculum?

Parents Forum
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<p>Wondering what the pros and cons are.</p>

<p>Click of policies .pdf.</p>

<p>[Policies</a> and Procedures ? 100P](<a href=“http://100p.cs.ua.edu/doc/policies.pdf/view]Policies”>http://100p.cs.ua.edu/doc/policies.pdf/view)</p>

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<p>Looks like it is intended for top students with high levels of motivation to do independent study – these would be the kinds of students who may find the pace of regular courses to be too slow.</p>

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<p>My S is considering doing it. He took a test to get into the program and did well. He learned programming on his own so I’m sure he could handle it, but I don’t know how isolating it would be. It does seem like he could learn a lot more than in a regular class setting.</p>

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<p>More info here.</p>

<p><a href=“http://nkraft.cs.ua.edu/publications/Hong-etal_12.pdf[/url]”>http://nkraft.cs.ua.edu/publications/Hong-etal_12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;