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SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Interfaces first (and foremost) with Java
ion is a critical concept that underlies many topics in computing science. For example, in software engineering, the distinction between a component’s behavior and its implement...
Paolo A. G. Sivilotti, Matthew Lang
SIGCSE
1998
ACM
125views Education» more  SIGCSE 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Design patterns: an essential component of CS curricula
The field of software patterns has seen an explosion in interest in the last three years. Work to date has been on the recognition, cataloging, and finding of patterns with litt...
Owen L. Astrachan, W. Garrett Mitchener, Geoffrey ...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
94views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
CS1 students speak: advice for students by students
We collected advice on how to succeed at learning to program from 164 CS1 students at 3 institutions during a "saying is believing"intervention designed to encourage a g...
Beth Simon, Brian Hanks, Carol Zander, Laurie Murp...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
194views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Integrating pedagogical code reviews into a CS 1 course: an empirical study
Formal code inspections are employed by teams of professional software engineers to identify software defects and improve the quality of software. After reviewing a piece of code ...
Christopher D. Hundhausen, Anukrati Agrawal, Dana ...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Test-driven learning in early programming courses
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
David Janzen, Hossein Saiedian