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ISSEP
2005
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
The Transition from School to University: Would Prior Study of Computing Help?
Abstract. We investigate issues in the preparation of students for undergraduate study. Specifically, we focus upon the question of whether computer science students would be bett...
Martyn Clark, Roger D. Boyle
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Thinking about computational thinking
Jeannette Wing’s call for teaching Computational Thinking (CT) as a formative skill on par with reading, writing, and arithmetic places computer science in the category of basic...
James J. Lu, George H. L. Fletcher
PAAPP
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Quantum computing: beyond the limits of conventional computation
The quantum model of computation not only o ers entirely new ways to manipulate information, but also allows information processing tasks to be formulated in unconventional, genui...
Marius Nagy, Selim G. Akl
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
How do computing faculty adopt curriculum innovations?: the story from instructors
This paper presents the findings of an exploratory, qualitative study revealing computing instructors’ experience in adopting curriculum innovations. We interviewed eight instru...
Lijun Ni, Tom McKlin, Mark Guzdial
FLAIRS
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Teaching Bottom-up AI from the Top Down
For many reasons, it is desirable to use robots in courses such as introductory computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, yet the knowledge normally require...
Christopher A. Welty, Kenneth Livingston, Calder M...