SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Teaching introductory programming today presents considerable challenges, which traditional techniques do not properly address. Students start with a wide variety of backgrounds a...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Plagiarism of material from the Internet is a widespread and growing problem. Computer science students, and those in other science and engineering courses, can sometimes get away...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Experimentation has shown that in-class educational technologies, by permitting anonymous, authored participation, can dramatically alter student communications in the classroom. ...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 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 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Visualization and interactivity are valuable active learning techniques that can improve mastery of difficult concepts. In this paper we describe jFAST, an easy-to-use graphical s...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Case-based analysis is a bottom-up methodology for ethical reasoning. In a teaching environment, it can be a useful alternative to top-down methods, such as Kantianism, utilitaria...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Target tracking is one of the most important applications of wireless sensor networks. Optimized computation and energy dissipation are critical requirements to maximize the lifet...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Undergraduate and master’s students enrolled in a programming language paradigms class are given the assignment to design a new programming language paradigm. The students are a...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Windows Media Player user interface “skin” creation has proven an extremely effective method to reinforce practical object oriented programming techniques. Skin creation motiv...