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2008
ACM
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Wikis: collaborative learning for cs education
act. Since 2003, ERIC has indexed 1,2, 6, and 13 articles in successive years; there were 9 in the first 5 months of 2007. Keywords Cooperative learning, wiki, active learning
Edward F. Gehringer, Lillian N. Cassel, Katherine ...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Inspiring blind high school students to pursue computer science with instant messaging chatbots
Blind students are an underrepresented group in computer science. In this paper, we describe our experience preparing and leading the computer science track at the National Federa...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Maxwell B. Aller, Jeremy T. Bru...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Towards a top-down approach to teaching an undergraduate grid computing course
Early undergraduate Grid computing courses generally took a bottom-up approach to Grid computing education starting with network protocols, client-server concepts, creating Web an...
Barry Wilkinson, Clayton Ferner
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Using iPodLinux in an introductory OS course
This paper describes a proof of concept for introducing iPods and iPodLinux into a one-semester introductory undergraduate operating systems course. iPodLinux is a version of the ...
Barry Lawson, Lewis Barnett
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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The mystery of "b : = (b = false)"
This paper describes some unusual patterns that emerged from a statistical analysis of the 1988 Advanced Placement Exam in Computer Science. Most multiple-choice questions on the ...
Stuart Reges
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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CS 0.5: a better approach to introductory computer science for majors
There are often problems when students enter a course with widely different experience levels with key course topics. If the material is covered too slowly, those with greater exp...
Robert H. Sloan, Patrick Troy
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Patterns for programming in parallel, pedagogically
Pipeline, Delta, and Black Hole are three simple patterns used in concurrent software design. We recently presented these and other patterns for parallelism at a nine-hour worksho...
Matthew C. Jadud, Jon Simpson, Christian L. Jacobs...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Improving computer science diversity through summer camps
Summer camps offer a ripe opportunity for increasing computer science diversity. This panel provides several examples of summer camps that specifically recruit from traditionally ...
Dennis P. Groth, Helen H. Hu, Betty Lauer, Hwajung...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Nifty objects for CS0 and CS1
Joe Hummel, Carl Alphonce, Joe Bergin, Michael E. ...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Compiler error messages: what can help novices?
Novices find it difficult to understand and use compiler error messages. It is useful to refine this observation and study the effect of different message styles on how well and q...
Marie-Hélène Nienaltowski, Michela P...