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ITICSE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using Octave to introduce programming to technical science students
In this paper we describe a five semester experiment on the
Nuno C. Marques, Francisco Azevedo, Carmen Morgado...
ITICSE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Engaging students to work with self-assessment questions: a study of two approaches
We explored two approaches for encouraging introductory programming students to use the web-based, selfassessment system, QuizPACK. An "organizational" approach applied ...
Peter Brusilovsky, Sergey A. Sosnovsky
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
166views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Introducing concurrency in CS 1
Because of the growing importance of concurrent programming, many people are trying to figure out where in the curriculum to introduce students to concurrency. In this paper we di...
Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk, Thomas P....
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
135views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Breadth-last technical electives: integrating the CS core via computer games and mobile robotics
In this paper, we introduce the concept of breadth-last technical elective courses, which are designed to assist undergraduate CS students in integrating their entire core curricu...
William W. White, Jerry B. Weinberg
SIGCSE
1999
ACM
83views Education» more  SIGCSE 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
Global cooperation project in computer programming course
A Global Cooperation Project was conducted with computer science classes at the Czech Technical University and North Hennepin Community College. The project was a pilot project fo...
Thomas Macek, Bozena Mannova, Josef Kolar, Barbara...