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SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts
Research on learning suggests the importance of helping students organize their knowledge around meaningful patterns of information. This paper reports on a multi-institutional st...
Laurie Murphy, Renée McCauley, Suzanne West...
TAPIA
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Preliminary analysis of factors affecting women and african americans in the computing sciences
The current paper presents research that investigates those factors that affect the recruitment and retention of women and African Americans in the computing sciences. We begin by...
Jamika D. Burge, Tiki L. Suarez
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SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Measuring the effectiveness of robots in teaching computer science
We report the results of a year-long experiment in the use of robots to teach computer science. Our data set compares results from over 800 students on identical tests from both r...
Barry S. Fagin, Laurence D. Merkle
ACE
2003
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15 years 3 months ago
Student satisfaction with groupwork in undergraduate computer science : do things get better?
Groupwork has a large and important role in computer science courses. Moreover, groupwork skills are among the most important generic attributes students should develop during the...
Helen Drury, Judy Kay, Warren Losberg
GECCO
2007
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
Activation energy-based simulation for self-assembly of multi-shape tiles
Building artificial systems using self-assembly is one of the main issues of artificial life [17]. Scientists are trying to understand this process either using experimental appro...
Mostafa Mostafa Hashim Ellabaan