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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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15 years 5 months ago
Everything I needed to know about teaching I learned in kindergarten: bringing elementary education techniques to undergraduate
By expanding the teaching styles used in computer science classrooms, we can expand the audience of students that enjoy and excel in technology. Rather than focusing on major curr...
Shannon Pollard, Robert C. Duvall
SIGITE
2004
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Implementation of object-orientation using UML in entry level software development courses
In this paper, we establish the need (based on literature and anecdotal evidence) for an infrastructure for CS1 courses to visually support problem solving from the initial proble...
Mohammad H. N. Tabrizi, Carol B. Collins, E. Ozan,...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
MPCT: media propelled computational thinking
Media-Propelled Computational Thinking (MPCT – pronounced impact) is a course designed to introduce programming in the context of engaging problems in media computation, math, a...
Eric Andrew Freudenthal, Mary K. Roy, Alexandria N...
SIGITE
2004
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Keeping family of computing related disciplines together
There are efforts underway to define each of several flavors of computing disciplines, including computer science, computer engineering, information science, information technolog...
Reza Kamali, Lillian N. Cassel, Richard J. LeBlanc
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 9 days ago
Foss 101: engaging introductory students in the open source movement
Can engaging students in free and open source software (FOSS) pique their interest in computer science? This paper describes an introductory computer science course that introduce...
Ralph Morelli, Trishan R. de Lanerolle