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Course Summary and Advice

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Essay Question: Write a summary of COT 4210 (Theory of Computation) for a current Computer Science II student. Summarize the main points of the course and explain which ideas from the course are most relevant to their computer science education as a whole.


The intention for this essay, or any similar essay is to make students reflect on their own education and to help them build an educational philosophy.

This type of essay can be given in any junior/senior level Computer Science class.

The idea is to come up with a question relevant to the structure of the class that forces students to contextualize the purpose of the class, and figure out the significance of what they are learning.

This specific essay was given to a "Theory of Computation" course.

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Arup Guha

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Arup Guha, “Course Summary and Advice,” Incorporating Communication Outcomes into the Computer Science Curriculum, accessed May 18, 2020, http://cs-comm.lib.muohio.edu/items/show/124.

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File: Essay-Sum12.doc

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