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2003
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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
2003
ACM
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Faculty turnover in CS departments
The rapid growth of computer science in both academia and industry creates a special problem with faculty turnover. This paper examines data from a national study of computer scie...
Joanne McGrath Cohoon, Rebecca Shwalb, Lih-Yuan Ch...
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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Introducing middle school girls to fault tolerant computing
During summer 2002, we ran a workshop module for a group of 28 eighth-grade girls. Our aim was ambitious: to introduce these students, ages 12 and 13, to computer science by focus...
Paolo A. G. Sivilotti, Murat Demirbas
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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Creating a computer science canon: a course of "classic" readings in computer science
Computer science has a reputation of being a discipline in a perpetual state of accelerated progress—a discipline in which our techniques, our hardware, our software systems, an...
Michael Eisenberg
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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Using Java to teach networking concepts with a programmable network sniffer
A crucial part of the Networking course is the examination of and experimentation with network traffic data. Most standalone network traffic sniffers are quite expensive and those...
Michael J. Jipping, Agata Bugaj, Liliyana Mihalkov...