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2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Breadth-last technical electives: integrating the CS core via computer games and mobile robotics
In this paper, we introduce the concept of breadth-last technical elective courses, which are designed to assist undergraduate CS students in integrating their entire core curricu...
William W. White, Jerry B. Weinberg
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Music performamatics: interdisciplinary interaction
This paper describes how a graphical user interface (GUI) programming course offered by the Dept. of Computer Science (CS) was paired with a general teaching methods course offere...
Jesse M. Heines, Gena R. Greher, Sarah Kuhn
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Personalizing CS1 with robots
We have developed a CS1 curriculum that uses a robotics context to teach introductory programming [1]. Core to our approach is that each student has their own personal robot. Our ...
Jay Summet, Deepak Kumar, Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel ...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Acm education board and masters level programs
This special session will proved information about the status of work related to Masters programs in Computing. Specifically, the session will describe work completed in the follo...
Gordon Davies, Lillian N. Cassel, Arthur B. Pyster...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Methodology for successful undergraduate recruiting in computer science at comprehensive public universities
This paper presents a methodology for increasing undergraduate Computer Science (CS) major enrollment at comprehensive public universities, particularly those that have first gene...
Patricia Morreale, Stan Kurkovsky, George Chang