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FECS
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
Improving Student Motivation in a Computing Course for Non-Majors
- This paper focuses on introductory computer science courses offered to students not majoring in computer science. In particular, the issues of student motivation and engagement i...
Stan Kurkovsky
SIGADA
1997
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Transitioning to Ada in an Introductory Course for Non-Majors
All students attending the U.S. Air Force Academy are required to take an introductory course in computer science. Last year we transitioned to Ada in this course. In this paper w...
A. T. Chamillard, William C. Hobart Jr.
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Designing, implementing, and analyzing a placement test for introductory CS courses
An introductory CS1 course presents problems for educators and students due to students’ diverse background in programming knowledge and exposure. Students who enroll in CS1 als...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Suzette Person, Gwen N...
IEEECIT
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Reform and Practice in the Course ???The Principle of Computer Organization???
—This paper introduces several new guiding ideologies in “the Principle of Computer Organization” course reform, based on the purpose of application-oriented personnel traini...
Qifan Yang, Jianping Cai
CSEE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On Pair Rotation in the Computer Science Course
In a course environment, pairing a student with one partner for the entire semester is beneficial, but may not be optimal. The authors conducted a study in two undergraduate level...
Hema Srikanth, Laurie A. Williams, Eric Wiebe, Car...