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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
146views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Introductory game creation: no programming required
Many incoming college freshmen have accumulated a significant number of hours of experience playing computer games. Extending that experience to actual game creation activities ca...
A. T. Chamillard
SIGCSE
1998
ACM
125views Education» more  SIGCSE 1998»
15 years 2 months ago
Providing intellectual focus to CS1/CS2
First-year computer science students need to see clearly that computer science as a discipline has an important intellectual role to play and that it offers deep philosophical que...
Timothy J. Long, Bruce W. Weide, Paolo Bucci, Davi...
CAINE
2008
14 years 11 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...
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
SciNews online: scaffolding the construction of scientific explanations
Middle and high-school science teachers have traditionally introduced current events in the classroom to leverage news topics relevant to the curriculum, such as the Sumatra Tsuna...
Sebastian de la Chica
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
121views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Using strategies for assessment of programming exercises
Programming exercise assessment tools alleviate the task of teachers, and increase consistency of markings. Many programming exercise assessment tools are based on testing. A test...
Alex Gerdes, Johan Jeuring, Bastiaan Heeren