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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
160views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
CS 0.5: a better approach to introductory computer science for majors
There are often problems when students enter a course with widely different experience levels with key course topics. If the material is covered too slowly, those with greater exp...
Robert H. Sloan, Patrick Troy
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...
CANDC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
RiTa: creativity support for computational literature
The RiTa Toolkit for Computation Literature is a suite of open-source components, tutorials, and examples, providing support for a range of tasks related to the practice of creati...
Daniel C. Howe
BEHAVIOURIT
2007
91views more  BEHAVIOURIT 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Reality is our laboratory: communities of practice in applied computer science
This paper presents a longitudinal study of the course ‘High-tech Entrepreneurship and New Media’. The course design is based on socio-cultural theories of learning and consid...
Markus Rohde, Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke, Volker ...
OIR
2011
401views Neural Networks» more  OIR 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Using Online Collaborative Tools for Groups to Co-Construct Knowledge
(limit 250 words) Purpose This paper reports and describes the use of MediaWiki and Google Docs at undergraduate level as online collaboration tools for co-constructing knowledge i...
Sam Kai Wah Chu, David M. Kennedy