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ICCS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The New Computational and Data Sciences Undergraduate Program at George Mason University
We describe the new undergraduate science degree program in Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) at George Mason University (Mason), which began offering courses for both major (...
Kirk D. Borne, John Wallin, Robert Weigel
SIGCSE
1999
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Cache conscious programming in undergraduate computer science
The wide-spread use of microprocessor based systems that utilize cache memory to alleviate excessively long DRAM access times introduces a new dimension in the quest to obtain goo...
Alvin R. Lebeck
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Expanding the frontiers of computer science: designing a curriculum to reflect a diverse field
While the discipline of computing has evolved significantly in the past 30 years, Computer Science curricula have not as readily adapted to these changes. In response, we have rec...
Mehran Sahami, Alex Aiken, Julie Zelenski
ITICSE
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Teaching undergraduate software design in a liberal arts environment using RoboCup
Most large research universities include a software design or software development course as a required or elective component of an undergraduate computer science major. For vario...
Timothy Huang, Frank Swenton