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FECS
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Will There Ever Be Consensus on CS1?
- The choice of programming language, the approach by which students are taught and the software tools made available to students have been controversial issues in many ways. While...
Robert M. Siegfried, David Chays, Katherine Herber...
IJOE
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Digital Astronomy in Education
: What causes seasons? Why day and night durations are so different with seasons alternation? Why the position of the full moon seems directed to the south in summer while it seems...
Saïd Boutiche
VL
2006
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Lessons Learned from Designing a Programming System to Support Middle School Girls Creating Animated Stories
Traditional approaches to teaching computer science are often unsuccessful in attracting girls into the discipline. Our hypothesis is that presenting computer programming as a mea...
Caitlin Kelleher, Randy Pausch

Book
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16 years 8 months ago
Teachers' Guide to Practical C++ Programming
"This book is designed to provide teaching materials to any instructor who wants to use Practical C++ Programming in his classroom. The materials contained in this book contai...
Steve Oualline
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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14 years 9 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