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Through this project, Dr. Cotterell and Dr. Barnes developed a guided reading-based textbook replacement for CSCI 1302 Software Development at the University of Georgia. CSCI 1302 is UGA's Computer Science II course in the set of USG Core Curriculum courses. Instead of reading a textbook, the students work through instructor-authored interactive tutorials to fully engage with new concepts.These tutorials are free for the students, licensed under a Creative Commons license, and consists of hands-on, relevant examples on each topic in the course. They provide the necessary background information and explain the importance of each topic. The tutorials guide the students through the topics using hands-on activities where they can implement, create, and test their implementations of new computer science topics. In other words, they are practicing the skill of computer programming while they are learning the concept. The full, active-learning, tutorial-based implementation of Software Development (CSCI 1302) began in Spring 2019. Below is an outline of the currently published editions comprising of over 300 pages of written material (conservatively estimated at ~50 lines per page), excluding supplemental programming/code examples. All of these materials are currently and activelybeing updated and added to this semester for a Fall 2020 edition.

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