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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
132views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
SIGCSE
1994
ACM
150views Education» more  SIGCSE 1994»
13 years 11 months ago
Using literate programming to teach good programming practices
The ability to comprehend a program written by other individuals is becoming increasingly important in software development and maintenance. In an attempt to encourage undergradua...
Stephen Shum, Curtis R. Cook
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
119views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Practice what you preach: full separation of concerns in CS1/CS2
We argue that the failure to separate the concerns in CS1 is the leading cause of difficulty in teaching OOP in the first year. We show how the concerns can be detangled and prese...
Hamzeh Roumani
SSDBM
2010
IEEE
248views Database» more  SSDBM 2010»
14 years 22 days ago
Client + Cloud: Evaluating Seamless Architectures for Visual Data Analytics in the Ocean Sciences
Science is becoming data-intensive, requiring new software architectures that can exploit resources at all scales: local GPUs for interactive visualization, server-side multi-core ...
Keith Grochow, Bill Howe, Mark Stoermer, Roger S. ...
SIGCSE
1999
ACM
193views Education» more  SIGCSE 1999»
13 years 12 months ago
Cache conscious programming in undergraduate computer science
The wide-spread use of microprocessor based systems that utilize cache memory to alleviate excessively long DRAM access times introduces a new dimension in the quest to obtain goo...
Alvin R. Lebeck