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2002
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
The effects of pair-programming on performance in an introductory programming course
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of pair-programming on student performance in an introductory programming class. Data was collected from approximately 600...
Charlie McDowell, Linda L. Werner, Heather E. Bull...
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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Integrating a simulation case study into CS2: developing design, empirical and analysis skills
Case studies are widely used in business and medicine to help students learn from the successes and failures of practitioners in the field. This paper discusses the potential bene...
Kay A. Robbins, Catherine Sauls Key, Keith Dickins...
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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Encouraging women in computer science
At a cost to both their own opportunities and society's ability to produce people with much-needed technical skills, women continue to be underrepresented in computer science...
Eric S. Roberts, Marina Kassianidou, Lilly Irani
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Introducing middle school girls to fault tolerant computing
During summer 2002, we ran a workshop module for a group of 28 eighth-grade girls. Our aim was ambitious: to introduce these students, ages 12 and 13, to computer science by focus...
Paolo A. G. Sivilotti, Murat Demirbas
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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Exploration of process interaction in operating systems: a pipe-fork simulator
Abstract This paper examines the use of a simulator to explore process interaction in Unix. The simulator allows instructors to trace through a variety of programs and to show how ...
Steven Robbins