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ITICSE
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
From objects-first to design-first with multimedia and intelligent tutoring
“Objects-first” is an increasingly popular strategy for teaching object-oriented programming by introducing the concepts of objects, classes, and instances before procedural e...
Sally H. Moritz, Fang Wei, Shahida M. Parvez, Glen...
VRML
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Guiding visitors of Web3D worlds through automatically generated tours
Many Web3D sites do not offer sufficient assistance to (especially novice) users in navigating the virtual world, find objects/places of interests, and learn how to interact with ...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Lucio Ieronutti
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ITICSE
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Curve and surface interpolation and approximation: knowledge unit and software tool
This paper describes a knowledge unit and the use of a software tool, DesignMentor, for teaching a very challenging topic in computer graphics and visualization, namely: curve and...
John Fisher, John L. Lowther, Ching-Kuang Shene
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Using image processing projects to teach CS1 topics
As Computer Science educators, we know that students learn more from projects that are fun and challenging, that seem “real” to them, and that allow them to be creative in des...
Richard Wicentowski, Tia Newhall
SYSTOR
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Empirical quantification of opportunities for content adaptation in web servers
A basic problem in the management of web servers is capacity planning: you want enough capacity to be able to serve peak loads, but not too much so as to avoid excessive costs. It...
Michael Gopshtein, Dror G. Feitelson