SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
Cloud computing is rapidly increasing in popularity. Companies such as RedHat, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and IBM are increasingly funding cloud computing infrastructure and resea...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
For decades, US universities and colleges have had policies pertaining to the conduct of their students at the institutional level. These policies are referred to as Academic Inte...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
Test-Driven Design (TDD) has been shown to increase the productivity of programming teams and improve the quality of the code they produce. However, most of the introductory
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
Like a screenplay, a program is both a static artifact and instructions for a dynamic performance. This duality can keep laypeople from appreciating the complexity of software sys...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
In this paper, we report on our experience in designing and delivering two new software design courses in the Informatics major at UC Irvine. When the major was created in 2004, i...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
Can engaging students in free and open source software (FOSS) pique their interest in computer science? This paper describes an introductory computer science course that introduce...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper describes how a graphical user interface (GUI) programming course offered by the Dept. of Computer Science (CS) was paired with a general teaching methods course offere...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper describes the integration of the Alice 3D virtual worlds environment into a diverse set of subjects in middle school, including the development of tutorials, example wo...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
It is difficult for instructors of CS1 and CS2 courses to get accurate answers to such critical questions as "how long are students spending on programming assignments?"...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
"Computer Science (CS) Unplugged"is an educational method for introducing non-specialists to concepts of CS through hands-on activities that don't require the use o...