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SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
Teaching introductory Java through LEGO MINDSTORMS models
Innovative teachers are continually looking for creative ideas, both to get their ideas across and to hold the interest of their students. One of the latest trends is the use of L...
David J. Barnes
CAINE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Scripted Artificially Intelligent Basic Online Tactical Simulation
For many years, introductory Computer Science courses have followed the same teaching paradigms. These paradigms utilize only simple console windows; more interactive approaches t...
Jesse D. Phillips, Roger V. Hoang, Joseph D. Mahsm...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Using SeSFJava in teaching introductory network courses
Networking course projects are usually described by an informal specification and a collection of test cases. Students often misunderstand the specification or oversimplify it t...
Tamer Elsharnouby, A. Udaya Shankar
MODELS
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Teaching Modeling: Why, When, What?
This paper reports on a panel discussion held during the Educators’ Symposium at MODELS’2009. It shortly explains the context provided for the discussion and outlines the state...
Jean Bézivin, Robert France, Martin Gogolla...
FECS
2009
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13 years 4 months ago
Development of a System for Teaching C/C++ Using Robots and Open Source Software in a CS1 Course
- This paper describes the development of a system for teaching C/C++ using LegoTM RCX Robots in a CS1 college course on introductory programming. The system has been implemented u...
Amy Delman, Lawrence Goetz, Yedidyah Langsam, Theo...