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ACE
2003
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13 years 10 months ago
Bootstrapping Computer Science in Old North Wales
We describe our experiences in setting up a new Computer Science department in an established University within the UK. We drew upon our experiences in teaching Computing in Austr...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James

Tutorial
769views
15 years 6 months ago
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
"To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers. ...
Robert L. Read
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Tinkering and gender in end-user programmers' debugging
Earlier research on gender effects with software features intended to help problem-solvers in end-user debugging environments has shown that females are less likely to use unfamil...
Laura Beckwith, Cory Kissinger, Margaret M. Burnet...
SC
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Parallel Programmer Productivity: A Case Study of Novice Parallel Programmers
In developing High-Performance Computing (HPC) software, time to solution is an important metric. This metric is comprised of two main components: the human effort required develo...
Lorin Hochstein, Jeffrey Carver, Forrest Shull, Si...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Test-driven learning in early programming courses
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
David Janzen, Hossein Saiedian