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JUCS
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
A WebQuest Framework to Improve the Study of Deadlock and Process Synchronization
: The impact of the Internet on Society also affects learning at University. Students use not only printed books and their own notes, but also the information available on the Net...
Luis Panizo, Ramón-Ángel Ferná...
APVIS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Experimental Evaluation of a Program Visualisation Tool for Use in Computer Science Education
This paper presents an experimental evaluation of a program visualisation tool. Computer science students in an introductory object oriented programming course in Java were asked ...
Kathryn Kasmarik, Joe Thurbon
ICMCS
1999
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Experiences from Teaching an Interdisciplinary Multimedia Course
At Wellesley College very rarely do the Fine Art and Computer Science faculty cross paths. That was the case until two years ago when we taught an experimental course that brought...
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Naomi Ribner
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
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
2004
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Using software testing to move students from trial-and-error to reflection-in-action
Introductory computer science students rely on a trial and error approach to fixing errors and debugging for too long. Moving to a reflection in action strategy can help students ...
Stephen H. Edwards
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Integrating science and research in a HCI design course
Undergraduate computer science students have few opportunities to experience scientific investigation and computer science research. A human-computer interaction (HCI) course can ...
Robert Pastel
ITICSE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Peer teaching extends HCI learning
Crafting a good user experience requires skills in several disciplines. Few people have this breadth of knowledge, and undergraduate computer science students are no exception. En...
Beryl Plimmer, Robert Amor