Sciweavers

165 search results - page 16 / 33
» Experiences in Teaching Software Evolution and Program Compr...
Sort
View
SIGCSE
2000
ACM
119views Education» more  SIGCSE 2000»
14 years 17 hour ago
Bugs as features: teaching network protocols through debugging
Being exposed to well-written code is a valuable experience for students -- especially when the code is larger or more complex than they are currently capable of writing. In addit...
Brad Richards
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
163views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Design guidelines for the lab component of objects-first CS1
We adopt the view that CS1 labs are not programming assignments, and that they should not be used for grading students or assessing their level of understanding. Instead, we think...
Hamzeh Roumani
IWPC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Adding Control-Flow to a Visual Data-Flow Representation
Previous studies have shown that novices do not tend to extract or use data-flow information during program comprehension. However, for impact analysis and similar tasks, data-ï¬...
David Dearman, Anthony Cox, Maryanne Fisher
IWPSE
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
EvoLens: Lens-View Visualizations of Evolution Data
Visualizing software evolution is essential for identifying design erosions that have occurred over the past releases. Making evolutionary aspects explicit via visual representati...
Jacek Ratzinger, Michael Fischer, Harald Gall
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
KenyaEclipse: learning to program in eclipse
A fundamental part of a Computer Science degree is learning to program. Rather than starting students on a full commercial language, we favour using a dedicated "teaching lan...
Robert Chatley, Thomas Timbul