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SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Introducing computer science through animation and virtual worlds
We describe a course for non-majors that teaches computer science concepts and programming by creating simple animations and building 2D and 3D virtual worlds. Students work with ...
Susan H. Rodger
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Infinite Time Cellular Automata: A Real Computation Model
We define a new transfinite time model of computation, infinite time cellular automata. The model is shown to be as powerful than infinite time Turing machines, both on finite and ...
Fabien Givors, Grégory Lafitte, Nicolas Oll...
CORR
2011
Springer
205views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 5 months ago
On the algebraic numbers computable by some generalized Ehrenfest urns
This article deals with some stochastic population protocols, motivated by theoretical aspects of distributed computing. We modelize the problem by a large urn of black and white ...
Marie Albenque, Lucas Gerin
SIGCSE
1999
ACM
83views Education» more  SIGCSE 1999»
14 years 2 months ago
Global cooperation project in computer programming course
A Global Cooperation Project was conducted with computer science classes at the Czech Technical University and North Hennepin Community College. The project was a pilot project fo...
Thomas Macek, Bozena Mannova, Josef Kolar, Barbara...
SIGCSE
1994
ACM
172views Education» more  SIGCSE 1994»
14 years 2 months ago
Collaborative learning in an introductory computer science course
An experiment in collaborative learning was conducted in two introductory programming courses at Loyola College in Maryland. Data collected included background information on stud...
Roberta Evans Sabin, Edward P. Sabin