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SIGCSE
2010
ACM
181views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Teaching the principles of the hacker curriculum to undergraduates
The “Hacker Curriculum” exists as a mostly undocumented set of principles and methods for learning about information security. Hacking, in our view, is defined by the ability...
Sergey Bratus, Anna Shubina, Michael E. Locasto
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
150views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Dereferee: exploring pointer mismanagement in student code
Dynamic memory management and the use of pointers are critical topics in teaching the C++ language. They are also some of the most difficult for students to grasp properly. The re...
Anthony Allevato, Manuel A. Pérez-Qui&ntild...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
PhidgetLab: crossing the border from virtual to real-world objects
Teaching pupils the ideas behind objects in programming languages can be difficult since these concepts are mostly and not comprehensible at first sight. Etoys as a visual progra...
Michael Haupt, Michael Perscheid, Robert Hirschfel...
VL
2010
IEEE
209views Visual Languages» more  VL 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Towards the Automatic Recognition of Computational Thinking for Adaptive Visual Language Learning
Visual programming languages can be used to make computer science more accessible to a broad range of students. The evaluative focus of current research in the area of visual lang...
Kyu Han Koh, Ashok R. Basawapatna, Vicki Bennett, ...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
362views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Chirp on crickets: teaching compilers using an embedded robot controller
Traditionally, the topics of compiler construction and language processing have been taught as an elective course in Computer Science curricula. As such, students may graduate wit...
Li Xu, Fred G. Martin