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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Best practices in extreme programming course design
Teaching (and therefore learning) eXtreme Programming (XP) in a university setting is difficult because of course time limitations and the soft nature of XP that requires first-ha...
Kai Stapel, Daniel Lübke, Eric Knauss
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
On preparing students for distributed software development with a synchronous, collaborative development platform
Working remotely is becoming the norm for both professionals and students alike. Software development has become a global industry due to outsourcing, teleworking, flex time, and ...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie Williams
INFOSECCD
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Is attack better than defense?: teaching information security the right way
A recent trend in security education is towards teaching offensive techniques which were originally developed by hackers. This reflects tendencies in the professional world where ...
Martin Mink, Felix C. Freiling
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch
This paper describes Scratch, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers. We report on the Scratch programming exp...
John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
189views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Operational experience with a virtual networking laboratory
Virtual laboratories are a potential replacement for standard laboratory facilities. Use of these virtual resources can reduce cost and maintenance overheads for teaching institut...
Charlie Wiseman, Ken Wong, Tilman Wolf, Sergey Gor...