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ACE
2004
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13 years 6 months ago
Teaching Computer Architecture in Introductory Computing: Why? and How?
This paper discusses our rationale for teaching the fundamentals of computer architecture early in the computer science (CS) degree program. We also describe an active learning te...
Kris D. Powers
ASSETS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Accessibility now!: teaching accessible computing at the introductory level
As ASSETS attendees, we are clearly interested in promoting accessibility in computing. One way to do this is to teach courses on the topic. Most such courses are aimed at upper-l...
Brian J. Rosmaita
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Teaching computation to undergraduate scientists
This paper describes the motivation and design of an introductory computational course for natural, physical, and social scientists. Categories and Subject Descriptors: K.3.2 Comp...
Daniel T. Kaplan
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Teaching objects-first in introductory computer science
An objects-first strategy for teaching introductory computer science courses is receiving increased attention from CS educators. In this paper, we discuss the challenge of the obj...
Stephen Cooper, Wanda Dann, Randy Pausch
SIGCSE
1998
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Scaling: a design pattern in introductory computer science courses
We present a series of programming exercises that use scaling as a theme for teaching design techniques in the introductory computer science course sequence. All exercises are on ...
Harriet J. Fell, Viera K. Proulx, Richard Rasala