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ITICSE
2000
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Pedagogical power tools for teaching Java
We describe a Java toolkit that is designed to support the creation of powerful and extensible GUI interfaces during the first year computer science course. The goals of this tool...
Jeff Raab, Richard Rasala, Viera K. Proulx
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A teamwork-based approach to programming fundamentals with scheme, smalltalk & java
In October 2004 the University of Lugano in southern Switzerland established a new faculty of informatics. Its founding principles are innovation in teaching and faculty participa...
Michele Lanza, Amy L. Murphy, Romain Robbes, Mirce...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
Enhancing K-12 education with alice programming adventures
This paper describes the integration of the Alice 3D virtual worlds environment into many disciplines in elementary school, middle school and high school. We have developed a wide...
Susan H. Rodger, Maggie Bashford, Lana Dyck, Jenna...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
QuickDraw: bringing graphics into first year
This paper describes a new tool for introducing computer graphics and multimedia applications into first year, called QuickDraw, and our experience using it. QuickDraw provides an...
Ben Stephenson, Craig Taube-Schock
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A computer-supported cooperative learning system with multiagent intelligence
In this paper, we describe an innovative infrastructure to support student participation and collaboration and help the instructor manage large or distance classrooms using multia...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Nobel Khandaker, Xuliu Liu, Hong Ji...