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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
169views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...
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IWPC
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A Comparative Study of Three Program Exploration Tools
Programmers need tools to help explore large software systems when performing software evolution tasks. A variety of tools have been created to improve the effectiveness of such e...
Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, Martin P. Robillar...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
112views Education» more  SIGCSE 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Using software testing to move students from trial-and-error to reflection-in-action
Introductory computer science students rely on a trial and error approach to fixing errors and debugging for too long. Moving to a reflection in action strategy can help students ...
Stephen H. Edwards
BMCBI
2008
142views more  BMCBI 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Strategies for measuring evolutionary conservation of RNA secondary structures
Background: Evolutionary conservation of RNA secondary structure is a typical feature of many functional non-coding RNAs. Since almost all of the available methods used for predic...
Andreas R. Gruber, Stephan H. F. Bernhart, Ivo L. ...
GECCO
2010
Springer
230views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Exponential natural evolution strategies
The family of natural evolution strategies (NES) offers a principled approach to real-valued evolutionary optimization by following the natural gradient of the expected fitness....
Tobias Glasmachers, Tom Schaul, Yi Sun, Daan Wiers...