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SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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Activities to attract high school girls to computer science
We present several activities used in the two-week PipeLINK summer program for high school girls. These hands-on activities and interactive talks, presented mostly by female facul...
Susan H. Rodger, Ellen Lowenfeld Walker
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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The quest for excellence in designing CS1/CS2 assignments
We identify the principles involved in designing effective programming assignments for CS1/CS2. Through a case study of a particularly successful recursion assignment, we establis...
Todd J. Feldman, Julie Zelenski
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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Thinking about binary trees in an object-oriented world
The Binary Search Tree serves as an important example when teaching data structures. We explore new approaches to understanding the implementation of a Binary Search Tree, using c...
A. Michael Berman, Robert C. Duvall
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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An object-oriented program development environment for the first programming course
Over the last ten years there has been a major shift in programming language design from procedural languages to object-oriented languages. Most universities have adopted an objec...
Michael Kölling, John Rosenberg
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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Writing across the computer science curriculum
At our university, as at many others across the country, there is a movement to integrate the common core subjects with the disciplinary studies. While in the past writing has bee...
Harriet J. Fell, Viera K. Proulx, John Casey