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SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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Student culture vs group work in computer science
Our industrial advisory boards tell us that our students are well prepared technically, but they lack important group work skills. Simply adding project courses and requiring that...
William M. Waite, Michele H. Jackson, Amer Diwan, ...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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Buffer pools and file processing projects for an undergraduate data structures course
This paper presents a family of programming projects appropriate to a sophomore-level data structures course, centered around the concept of a buffer pool serving as the access i...
Clifford A. Shaffer
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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Using software testing to move students from trial-and-error to reflection-in-action
Introductory computer science students rely on a trial and error approach to fixing errors and debugging for too long. Moving to a reflection in action strategy can help students ...
Stephen H. Edwards
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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Core empirical concepts and skills for computer science
Educators are increasingly acknowledging that practical problems in computer science demand basic competencies in experimentation and data analysis. However, little effort has bee...
Grant Braught, Craig S. Miller, David W. Reed
Education
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