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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Enhancing undergraduate education: a REU model for interdisciplinary research
This paper presents a successful model for undergraduate research where student participants work on interdisciplinary research projects; in our case, at the frontier between comp...
Daniela Stan Raicu, Jacob D. Furst
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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A history of computing course with a technical focus
Many courses on the history of computing are designed for a general student audience, and as such, include fewer technical details than one might find in a typical CS course. Whi...
Geoffrey M. Draper, Robert R. Kessler, Richard F. ...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Pander to ponder
Owen L. Astrachan
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Advanced placement computer science: the future of tracking the first year of instruction
Owen L. Astrachan, Henry MacKay Walker, Chris Step...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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"Georgia computes!": improving the computing education pipeline
Amy Bruckman, Maureen Biggers, Barbara Ericson, To...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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What makes CS teachers change?: factors influencing CS teachers' adoption of curriculum innovations
Computer Science (CS) education researchers hope their research has real impact on teaching practices. Developers of innovative curricula and tools for CS education want teachers ...
Lijun Ni
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Thinking about computational thinking
Jeannette Wing’s call for teaching Computational Thinking (CT) as a formative skill on par with reading, writing, and arithmetic places computer science in the category of basic...
James J. Lu, George H. L. Fletcher
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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What game developers look for in a new graduate: interviews and surveys at one game company
Video game development is an attractive career objective for many computer science students. Colleges are starting degree programs and specializations to serve this interest, but ...
Michael Hewner, Mark Guzdial
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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Reinventing CS50
David J. Malan