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ACE
2004
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Patterns in Learning to Program - An Experiment?
Ron Porter, Paul R. Calder
ACE
2004
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Adventure Cycles A Software Engineering Approach
In this paper we discuss using a case study to demonstrate the software engineering process from requirements, specification, preliminary user manual, prototyping, design, impleme...
John Paynter, Emma Sharkey
ACE
2004
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This Course Has A Bloom Rating Of 3.9
This paper analyses the cognitive difficulty of six courses that may be taken as credit towards an IT degree offered by a regional Australian University. The assessment requiremen...
Dave Oliver, Tony Dobele, Myles Greber, Tim Robert...
ACE
2004
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Less Extreme Programming
Industrial practice in software engineering has developed in recent years from rigid heavyweight document-based development techniques, such as the Rational Unified Process, to in...
James Noble, Stuart Marshall, Stephen Marshall, Ro...
ACE
2004
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Using a Maze Case Study to Teach Object-Oriented Programming and Design Patterns
In order to teach object-oriented design and programming in introductory computer science it is imperative to teach objects from the very beginning of the course. The use of inter...
Chris Nevison, Barbara Wells
ACE
2004
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A Computing Education Vision for the Sight Impaired
Vision is the main sensory modality employed in learning. Teaching materials in the areas of information technology and computer engineering are highly visual in nature and vision...
Iain Murray, Helen Armstrong
ACE
2004
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Teaching Java First: Experiments with a Pigs-Early Pedagogy
This paper introduces PigWorld, a tool for teaching Java to novice programmers, via the objects-early style. Three design guidelines forobject-early assignments are discussed: (1)...
Raymond Lister
ACE
2004
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Teaching ICT to Pacific Island Background Students
This paper proposes that in order for students from Pacific Islands backgrounds in multicultural information and communication technology (ICT) classrooms to gain maximum benefit ...
Savae Latu, Alison Young
ACE
2004
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VELNET (Virtual Environment for Learning Networking)
The problems of providing a real, physical specialist laboratory to teach computer networking such as, the lack of funding and physical space and the risks and threats to the netw...
Bruce Kneale, Ain Y. De Horta, Ilona Box
ACE
2004
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Using Extreme Programming in a Capstone Project
Karen Keefe, Martin Dick