ITICSE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
This paper describes research on the perception of undergraduate students of the concept of reduction. Specifically, based on an analysis of students' answers to questions ad...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
We argue that the failure to separate the concerns in CS1 is the leading cause of difficulty in teaching OOP in the first year. We show how the concerns can be detangled and prese...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Undergraduate students who perform research benefit greatly from the experience, yet achieving high levels of voluntary participation remains an elusive goal. This paper describes...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Team projects are nowadays common practice in HCI education. This paper focuses on the role of clients and users in team projects in introductory HCI courses. In order to provide ...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
This paper describes Threshold Concepts, a theory of learning that distinguishes core concepts whose characteristics can make them troublesome in learning. With an eye to applying...
ACMSE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
This paper presents the preliminary findings of the Electronic Portfolio Student Perspective Instrument (EPSPI) developed to ascertain student attitudes and intended uses of ePort...
ITICSE
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Student involvement in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) projects holds the potential to provide a rich education experience to undergraduates. This paper discuss...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
A significant focus in the United States recently has been to increase engagement and interest in STEM curricula, particularly among girls and underrepresented minorities [3]. In ...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper, we propose a new approach to thinking about and implementing Computer Science curricula in secondary education. The characteristic feature is to organize the items ...
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2005
IEEE-ACM
Software engineering (SE) is very different in focus from traditional computer science: it is not just about computers and software, but as much about the context in which they ar...