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The MINTFIT Computer Science Online Course
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Conference Paper
Date Issued
2022-08
Sprache
English
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IEEE German Education Conference (GeCon 2022)
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STEM degree programs in Germany suffer from high dropout rates. The project MINTFIT Hamburg, a joint project of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU), Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Universität Hamburg (UHH) as well as the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), funded by the Hamburg Authority for Science, Research, Equality and Districts (BWFGB), was founded in 2014 to tackle this problem. MINTFIT Hamburg offers online tests and courses for prospective students of STEM degree programs on the MINTFIT platform www.mintfit.hamburg. The subjects covered are mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer science. This paper describes the background for developing the computer science online course of MINTFIT Hamburg and explains how it was designed with respect to content and structure based on an online survey amongst lecturers of computer science at German universities. The content of the chapters of the computer science course (On Computer Science, Logic, Algorithms, Programming, Formal Language, Math in Computer Science and Panorama View) is shortly presented, as well as an analysis of the collected data of the user flow and a brief outlook to possible future developments of the course.