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ITICSE
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Iconic programming for flowcharts, java, turing, etc
One of the largest barriers to learning programming is the precise and complex syntax required to write programs. This barrier is a key impediment to the integration of programmin...
Stephen Chen, Stephen Morris
ICFP
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Experience report: growing programming languages for beginning students
A student learning how to program learns best when the programming language and programming environment cater to her specific needs. These needs are different from the requirement...
Marcus Crestani, Michael Sperber
ITICSE
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Hands-on approach to teaching wireless sensor networks at the undergraduate level
Teaching wireless sensor networks (WSNs) at the undergraduate level is both challenging and rewarding. WSNs include low-level programming and debugging, power-aware operations, no...
Anna Förster, Mehdi Jazayeri
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Best practices in extreme programming course design
Teaching (and therefore learning) eXtreme Programming (XP) in a university setting is difficult because of course time limitations and the soft nature of XP that requires first-ha...
Kai Stapel, Daniel Lübke, Eric Knauss
PPOPP
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Mapping parallelism to multi-cores: a machine learning based approach
The efficient mapping of program parallelism to multi-core processors is highly dependent on the underlying architecture. This paper proposes a portable and automatic compiler-bas...
Zheng Wang, Michael F. P. O'Boyle