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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
365views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Computer science olympiad: exploring computer science through competition
Generating interest in specialized areas of Computer Science (CS) is one of the goals of the department of Computer and Information Science at Spelman College as with most departm...
Iretta B. C. Kearse, Charles Hardnett
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
107views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Foss 101: engaging introductory students in the open source movement
Can engaging students in free and open source software (FOSS) pique their interest in computer science? This paper describes an introductory computer science course that introduce...
Ralph Morelli, Trishan R. de Lanerolle
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
152views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Learning styles and performance in the introductory programming sequence
This paper reports on the implication of different preferred learning styles on students'performance in the introductory programming sequence and on work in progress on how t...
Lynda Thomas, Mark Ratcliffe, John Woodbury, Emma ...
SIGADA
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Transitioning to Ada in an Introductory Course for Non-Majors
All students attending the U.S. Air Force Academy are required to take an introductory course in computer science. Last year we transitioned to Ada in this course. In this paper w...
A. T. Chamillard, William C. Hobart Jr.
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
146views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Introductory game creation: no programming required
Many incoming college freshmen have accumulated a significant number of hours of experience playing computer games. Extending that experience to actual game creation activities ca...
A. T. Chamillard