Sciweavers

973 search results - page 59 / 195
» Updating computer science education
Sort
View
DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
B.Sc. Computer Game Development ... Why not?
We were motivated to consider proposing/adopting a new curriculum by the decrease in student enrolments currently experienced by our computing science programs. This requirement f...
Libero Ficocelli, David Gregg
ITICSE
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A media computation course for non-majors
Computing may well become considered an essential part of a liberal education, but introductory programming courses will not look like the way that they do today. Current CS1 cour...
Mark Guzdial
CHI
1995
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
The ScienceWare Modeler: a learner-centered tool for students building models
The Modeler is designed using a learner-centered approach [5], with scaffolding to address the specific needs of learners. Scaffolding [3] is an educational term that refers to pro...
Shari L. Jackson
ITICSE
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Fast application development to demonstrate computer graphics concepts
Computer graphics concepts have a high visual component. For that reason, teaching this subject should be enriched with the use of small applications showing concepts like near an...
Pedro Pablo Gómez-Martín, Marco Anto...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
164views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Scalable game design and the development of a checklist for getting computational thinking into public schools
Game design appears to be a promising approach to interest K-12 students in Computer Science. Unfortunately, balancing motivational and educational concerns is truly challenging. ...
Alexander Repenning, David C. Webb, Andri Ioannido...