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ICCS
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Developing Components and Curricula for a Research-Rich Undergraduate Degree in Computational Physics
Abstract. A four-year undergraduate curriculum leading to a Bachelor’s degree in Computational Physics is described. The courses, texts, and seminars are research- and Web-rich, ...
Rubin H. Landau
ACSE
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Here, there and everywhere - on the recurring use of turtle graphics in CS1
The Logo programming language implements a virtual drawing machine—the turtle machine. The turtle machine is well-known for giving students an intuitive understanding of fundame...
Michael E. Caspersen, Henrik Bærbak Christen...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
On the difficulty of replicating human subjects studies in software engineering
Replications play an important role in verifying empirical results. In this paper, we discuss our experiences performing a literal replication of a human subjects experiment that ...
Jonathan Lung, Jorge Aranda, Steve M. Easterbrook,...
ITICSE
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Pedagogical power tools for teaching Java
We describe a Java toolkit that is designed to support the creation of powerful and extensible GUI interfaces during the first year computer science course. The goals of this tool...
Jeff Raab, Richard Rasala, Viera K. Proulx
ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Experience report: CS1 for majors with media computation
Previous reports of a media computation approach to teaching programming have either focused on pre-CS1 courses or courses for non-majors. We report the adoption of a media comput...
Beth Simon, Päivi Kinnunen, Leo Porter, Dov Z...