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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Methods, metrics and motivation for a green computer science program
Computer science educators are uniquely positioned to promote greater awareness of Green Computing, using the academic setting to encourage environmentally conscious use of techno...
Mujtaba Talebi, Thomas Way
SIGADA
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Using SPARK for a beginner's course on reasoning about imperative programs
Teaching beginners predicate transformer semantics for imperative languages is not a trivial task. For Computer Science majors, the teaching of the theoretical material must be su...
Kung-Kiu Lau
ASSETS
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Designing a scripting language to help the blind program visually
The vast proliferation of GUI-based applications, including graphical interactive development environments (IDEs), has placed blind programmers at a severe disadvantage in a profe...
Kenneth G. Franqueiro, Robert M. Siegfried
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
Inspiring blind high school students to pursue computer science with instant messaging chatbots
Blind students are an underrepresented group in computer science. In this paper, we describe our experience preparing and leading the computer science track at the National Federa...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Maxwell B. Aller, Jeremy T. Bru...
ACMSE
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
BoxScript: a component-oriented language for teaching
As component-oriented approaches become increasingly pervasive in the development of complex software systems, it becomes increasingly important to introduce computing science stu...
Yi Liu, H. Conrad Cunningham