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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 9 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
2008
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Compiler error messages: what can help novices?
Novices find it difficult to understand and use compiler error messages. It is useful to refine this observation and study the effect of different message styles on how well and q...
Marie-Hélène Nienaltowski, Michela P...
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
JERPA: a distance-learning environment for introductory Java programming courses
This paper describes a Java-based distance-education tool, called the Environment for Remote Programming Assignments in Java (JERPA), for use in computer science courses with Java...
David Emory, Roberto Tamassia
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
VISUALIZATION
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Magic Volume Lens: An Interactive Focus+Context Technique for Volume Rendering
The size and resolution of volume datasets in science and medicine are increasing at a rate much greater than the resolution of the screens used to view them. This limits the amou...
Lujin Wang, Ye Zhao, Klaus Mueller, Arie E. Kaufma...