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ITICSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Once she makes it, she is there: gender differences in computer science study
When you sit in a Computer Science lecture at any university in the western world, what are the chances that the person sitting next to you will be a woman? Furthermore, what are ...
Tamar Vilner, Ela Zur
ACSC
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Learning and the Reflective Journal in Computer Science
This paper describes the use of the reflective journal in a computer programming course at the University of South Australia. We describe rationale for the journal relating it to ...
S. E. George
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Personalizing CS1 with robots
We have developed a CS1 curriculum that uses a robotics context to teach introductory programming [1]. Core to our approach is that each student has their own personal robot. Our ...
Jay Summet, Deepak Kumar, Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel ...
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
On the computational power of oblivious robots: forming a series of geometric patterns
We study the computational power of a distributed system consisting of simple autonomous robots moving on the plane. The robots are endowed with visual perception but do not have ...
Shantanu Das, Paola Flocchini, Nicola Santoro, Mas...