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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 6 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 6 months ago
Exploring studio-based instructional models for computing education
While the demand for college graduates with computing skills continues to rise, such skills no longer equate to mere programming skills. Modern day computing jobs demand design, c...
Christopher D. Hundhausen, N. Hari Narayanan, Mart...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A teamwork-based approach to programming fundamentals with scheme, smalltalk & java
In October 2004 the University of Lugano in southern Switzerland established a new faculty of informatics. Its founding principles are innovation in teaching and faculty participa...
Michele Lanza, Amy L. Murphy, Romain Robbes, Mirce...
ITICSE
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Teaching undergraduate software design in a liberal arts environment using RoboCup
Most large research universities include a software design or software development course as a required or elective component of an undergraduate computer science major. For vario...
Timothy Huang, Frank Swenton
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 1 months ago
eBirding: technology adoption and the transformation of leisure into science
The decreasing cost of technology and Internet access has resulted in increasingly large-scale scientific research projects that rely on technology-mediated public participation....
Andrea Wiggins