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ADAEUROPE
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Teaching Real-Time Systems Around a Digital Model Railroad Platform Using Ada
Abstract. This paper describes a laboratory equipped for the teaching of realtime systems. The laboratory has been built around a Digital Model Railroad Platform and it allows the ...
Bárbara Álvarez, Juan A. Pastor, Fra...
TEI
2009
ACM
118views Hardware» more  TEI 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Comics, robots, fashion and programming: outlining the concept of actDresses
This paper concerns the design of physical languages for controlling and programming robotic consumer products. For this purpose we explore basic theories of semiotics represented...
Ylva Fernaeus, Mattias Jacobsson
SIGCSE
2000
ACM
120views Education» more  SIGCSE 2000»
15 years 4 months ago
Object-orientation in Java for scientific programmers
Scientific programmers have traditionally programmed in entirely sequential languages such as Fortran, C or Pascal and it could be argued that object-orientation is not a concept ...
Judith Bishop, Nigel Bishop
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Event-driven programming facilitates learning standard programming concepts
We have designed a CS 1 course that integrates event-driven programming from the very start. In [2] we argued that event-driven programming is simple enough for CS 1 when introduc...
Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk
SIGCSE
2000
ACM
119views Education» more  SIGCSE 2000»
15 years 4 months ago
Bugs as features: teaching network protocols through debugging
Being exposed to well-written code is a valuable experience for students -- especially when the code is larger or more complex than they are currently capable of writing. In addit...
Brad Richards