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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Visual programming and the blind: the challenge and the opportunity
The proliferation of graphical user interfaces has had a dramatic impact on the ability to work as a programmer. It is particularly difficult for the blind to create forms for vis...
Robert M. Siegfried
ACSC
2003
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
A Novel Approach to Parenting in Functional Program Evaluation
The ability for multiple threads to enter the same graph node without contention and conflict is a necessary component of the graph reduction of functional languages since graph c...
Julian R. Dermoudy
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
130views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Introducing PyLighter: dynamic code highlighter
Like a screenplay, a program is both a static artifact and instructions for a dynamic performance. This duality can keep laypeople from appreciating the complexity of software sys...
Michael G. Boland, Curtis C. Cliburn
SIGITE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Teaching 2D arrays using real-time video filters
Educators have long been trying to spice things up in their introductory programming courses. Traditionally, twodimensional arrays have been taught non-graphically using contrived...
Jeffrey W. Chastine, Jon A. Preston