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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
15 years 10 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...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
221views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Virtualized games for teaching about distributed systems
Complex distributed systems are increasingly important in modern computer science, yet many undergraduate curricula do not give students the opportunity to develop the skill sets ...
Joel Wein, Kirill Kourtchikov, Yan Cheng, Ron Guti...
ITICSE
2005
ACM
15 years 3 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
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
133views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
Designing, implementing, and analyzing a placement test for introductory CS courses
An introductory CS1 course presents problems for educators and students due to students’ diverse background in programming knowledge and exposure. Students who enroll in CS1 als...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Suzette Person, Gwen N...
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IJCAI
1989
14 years 11 months ago
Introducing Actions into Qualitative Simulation
Many potential uses of qualitative physics, such as robot planning and intelligent computer-aided engineering, require integrating physics with actions taken by agents. This paper...
Kenneth D. Forbus