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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Integrating pedagogical code reviews into a CS 1 course: an empirical study
Formal code inspections are employed by teams of professional software engineers to identify software defects and improve the quality of software. After reviewing a piece of code ...
Christopher D. Hundhausen, Anukrati Agrawal, Dana ...
FLAIRS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting MindStorms NXT: Mapping and Localization Projects for the AI Course
1 This paper describes two major student projects for the artificial intelligence course – Mapping using Bayesian filter and Monte Carlo Localization. These projects are also sui...
Myles F. McNally, Frank Klassner, Christopher Cont...
ACSE
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
I/O considered harmful (at least for the first few weeks)
One of the major difficulties with teaching the first programming course is input/output. It is desirable to show students how to input data and output results early in the course...
John Rosenberg, Michael Kölling
PROCEDIA
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Introductory computational science using MATLAB and image processing
We describe a new course designed to introduce engineering students to computational thinking. One of the most significant challenges in teaching an introductory-level applied co...
D. Brian Larkins, William Harvey
IIE
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Visualize and Open Up
Motivating students of the Nintendo generation for Computer Science can only be achieved by providing them with an exiting and fresh CS1 course. The article describes the experienc...
Michela Pedroni, Till G. Bay