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FECS
2010
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14 years 7 months ago
Teaching Robotics to Freshman Students
This paper describes the experience of teaching robotics at the freshman level, from the conception of the project through the offering of a computer science seminar in robotics, h...
Pedro Diaz-Gomez, Johnny Carroll
CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 10 months ago
States and exceptions are dual effects
Global states and exceptions form two basic computational effects. In this paper it is proved that they can be seen as dual to each other: the lookup and update operations for glo...
Jean-Guillaume Dumas, Dominique Duval, Laurent Fou...
SIGCSE
2000
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Powers of 10: the case for changing the first course in computer graphics
The growing maturity of computer graphics technology now makes it possible to view the introductory graphics course in a general computer science curriculum in a new light. Instea...
Steve Cunningham
SIGCSE
1999
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Global cooperation project in computer programming course
A Global Cooperation Project was conducted with computer science classes at the Czech Technical University and North Hennepin Community College. The project was a pilot project fo...
Thomas Macek, Bozena Mannova, Josef Kolar, Barbara...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
High school computing clubs: a pilot study
While classes in IT skills are endemic, high school students in the UK rarely experience computer science. We present a pilot of a scheme that aims to go some way towards addressi...
Andrew Bennett, Joanna Briggs, Martyn Clark