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SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Closed laboratories with embedded instructional research design for CS1
Closed laboratories are becoming an increasingly popular approach to teaching introductory computer science courses. However, as observed in [1], “Considering the prevalence of ...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Suzette Person, Gwen N...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
PhidgetLab: crossing the border from virtual to real-world objects
Teaching pupils the ideas behind objects in programming languages can be difficult since these concepts are mostly and not comprehensible at first sight. Etoys as a visual progra...
Michael Haupt, Michael Perscheid, Robert Hirschfel...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
14 years 1 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...
DAGSTUHL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Illustrative Focus+Context Approaches in Interactive Volume Visualization
Illustrative techniques are a new and exciting direction in visualization research. Traditional techniques which have been used by scientific illustrators for centuries are re-exa...
Stefan Bruckner, M. Eduard Gröller, Klaus Mue...
ITICSE
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Curve and surface interpolation and approximation: knowledge unit and software tool
This paper describes a knowledge unit and the use of a software tool, DesignMentor, for teaching a very challenging topic in computer graphics and visualization, namely: curve and...
John Fisher, John L. Lowther, Ching-Kuang Shene