freshmen

As of 2008, less than half of university freshmen in some German states had graduated from a Gymnasium.

They can form around extracurriculars, and freshmen in computer clubs tend to have significant previous exposure and some experience.

We're discussing what freshmen in CS should be learning, not what sophomores/juniors/seniors should be learning.

Since they were obese as freshmen, the finger would seem to point at their parents.

Even in Bavaria (a state with a policy of strengthening the Gymnasium) only 56 percent of freshmen had graduated from a Gymnasium.

If you want an alternative metric, something like 1 in 3 entering freshmen don't know what the BCC feature does in email.

The number from a few years ago showed college freshmen using Macs by 70%.

Even this 125k threshold assumes a 5k student contribution and doesn't cover the mandatory 15k in room + board for incoming freshmen.

College freshmen, most of whom have never seen a Linux machine manage it.

Most likely he is a freshmen in one of the said establishments.

It often feels like a thousand sophomores, lecturing to ten-thousand freshmen.

My first lectures to freshmen deal with precisely this issue.

Is this really any different than the "diversity" classes that some schools make freshmen take?

I once asked Howard Rhinegold if he felt there was any justification to the "digital natives" idea and he expressed that in his experience in teaching freshmen at both Stanford and Cal, there was no such person.

Getting people to leave a mere "answer getting" mindset and engage with the "technique and problem understanding" mindset is one of the most important parts of the job of teaching freshmen and sophomores (particularly in mathematics).

Freshmen year is very early to be making tough decisions about your career prospects.