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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 5 months ago
Using daily student presentations to address attitudes and communication skills in CS1
Many CS1 courses lack a breadth in coverage of computing related topics and do not actively engage in nonprogramming computer science topics. In addition, many introductory (and...
Chris Bennett, Timothy Urness
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Women in CS: an evaluation of three promising practices
Historically, Harvey Mudd College (HMC) has had very little success attracting women to the study of computer science: women have chosen CS less than any other field of study. In...
Christine Alvarado, Zachary Dodds
ITICSE
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Peer teaching extends HCI learning
Crafting a good user experience requires skills in several disciplines. Few people have this breadth of knowledge, and undergraduate computer science students are no exception. En...
Beryl Plimmer, Robert Amor
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 4 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...
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Computing (or not) Quasi-Periodicity Functions of Tilings
Abstract. We know that tilesets that can tile the plane always admit a quasiperiodic tiling [4, 8], yet they hold many uncomputable properties [3, 11, 21, 25]. The quasi-periodicit...
Alexis Ballier, Emmanuel Jeandel