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ACMSE
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Tic-Tac-LEGO: an investigation into coordinated robotic control
The Lego Mindstorms Robot Command eXplorer (RCX) is a popular robotics kit that provides an immediate "out-of-the-box" opportunity to explore software controlled robot i...
Ruben Vuittonet, Jeff Gray
FECS
2006
102views Education» more  FECS 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Student Motivation in a Computing Course for Non-Majors
- This paper focuses on introductory computer science courses offered to students not majoring in computer science. In particular, the issues of student motivation and engagement i...
Stan Kurkovsky
CSEE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Increased Retention of Early Computer Science and Software Engineering Students Using Pair Programming
An important problem faced by many Computer Science and Software Engineering programs is declining enrollment. In an effort to reverse that trend at Mississippi State University, ...
Jeffrey C. Carver, Lisa Henderson, Lulu He, Julia ...
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Writing across the computer science curriculum
At our university, as at many others across the country, there is a movement to integrate the common core subjects with the disciplinary studies. While in the past writing has bee...
Harriet J. Fell, Viera K. Proulx, John Casey
FLAIRS
2010
13 years 10 months ago
A Game Playing System for Use in Computer Science Education
The MAPLE Game Playing System is a web application and website that allows students to design and program game playing agents using the Python programming language. The system pro...
James MacGlashan, Don Miner, Marie desJardins