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CIS department's Professor John Conery publishes new textbook

Explorations in Computing

Prof. John Conery has published a new textbook. Titled "Explorations in Computing: An Introduction to Computer Science", the book is intended for courses such as CIS 170, the CIS Department's lower-division science elective for non-majors and pre-majors. The book uses an "active learning" approach to introduce students to a wide variety of problems in computer science. Each chapter has a tutorial project that gives students hands-on experience, giving them a chance to interact with algorithms and run experiments with computations. The table of contents and a sample chapter are available at the book's web site, http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/eic.