A Survey of Assignments in Undergraduate Computer Architecture Courses

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  • Dimitris Kehagias Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens Ag. Spiridona Str 12210 Egaleo Athens, Greece

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v11i06.5776

Keywords:

Assignments, Computer Architecture Courses, Computer Science, Survey

Abstract


Computer architecture is an essential topic in undergraduate Computer Science (CS) curricula. Teaching computer architecture courses to CS students can be challenging, as the concepts are on a high abstraction level and not easy to grasp for students. Learning of computer architecture abstracts is strongly reinforced by hands-on assignment experience. This paper presents results from a survey of assignments from 40 undergraduate computer architecture courses, which are offered in 40 CS departments. These surveyed courses are selected from universities listed among the 120 top North America universities by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2015. The information used for this survey is based solely on material publicly accessible on the websites of courses.

Author Biography

Dimitris Kehagias, Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens Ag. Spiridona Str 12210 Egaleo Athens, Greece

Professor in the Informatics department of T.E.I. of Athens

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Published

2016-06-27

How to Cite

Kehagias, D. (2016). A Survey of Assignments in Undergraduate Computer Architecture Courses. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 11(06), pp. 68–72. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v11i06.5776

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