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SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
KenyaEclipse: learning to program in eclipse
A fundamental part of a Computer Science degree is learning to program. Rather than starting students on a full commercial language, we favour using a dedicated "teaching lan...
Robert Chatley, Thomas Timbul
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 1 days ago
Thinking about computational thinking
Jeannette Wing’s call for teaching Computational Thinking (CT) as a formative skill on par with reading, writing, and arithmetic places computer science in the category of basic...
James J. Lu, George H. L. Fletcher
AGP
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Declarative Programming: What, When, Where, Why, Who, How?
This chapter tackles the relation between declarative languages and multi-agent systems by following the dictates of the five Ws (and one H) that characterize investigations. The ...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Viviana Mascard...
IGARSS
2010
13 years 2 days ago
Hands-on GPS and remote sensing training for high school learners during IGARSS 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa
Continuing the commitment of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) to education and outreach, the IEEE 2009 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS...
Linda Hayden, Ambrose Jearld, Je'aime Powell, Kuch...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Exploring Human Visualization of Computer Algorithms
Many educators have used Algorithm Visualization (AV) to teach students of computer science about how computer algorithms work. Our study sheds light on two important questions: (...
Sarah A. Douglas, Christopher D. Hundhausen, Donna...