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PLILP
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
DrScheme: A Pedagogic Programming Environment for Scheme
Abstract. Teaching introductory computing courses with Scheme elevates the intellectual level of the course and thus makes the subject more appealing to students with scienti c int...
Robert Bruce Findler, Cormac Flanagan, Matthew Fla...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Experience report: CS1 for majors with media computation
Previous reports of a media computation approach to teaching programming have either focused on pre-CS1 courses or courses for non-majors. We report the adoption of a media comput...
Beth Simon, Päivi Kinnunen, Leo Porter, Dov Z...
SIGCSE
2012
ACM
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12 years 3 months ago
Teaching operating systems using android
The computing landscape is shifting towards mobile devices. To learn about operating systems, it is increasingly important for students to gain hands-on kernel programming experie...
Jeremy Andrus, Jason Nieh
ITICSE
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Pedagogical power tools for teaching Java
We describe a Java toolkit that is designed to support the creation of powerful and extensible GUI interfaces during the first year computer science course. The goals of this tool...
Jeff Raab, Richard Rasala, Viera K. Proulx
FECS
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Development of a system for teaching CS1 in C/C++ with Lego NXT robots
This paper describes the development of a system for teaching C/C++ using a LegoTM NXT in a CSI college course on introductory programming. The programming of the NXT robot has be...
Amy Delman, Adiba Ishak, Lawrence Goetz, Mikhail K...