Can engaging students in free and open source software (FOSS) pique their interest in computer science? This paper describes an introductory computer science course that introduce...
- This paper describes the development of a system for teaching C/C++ using LegoTM RCX Robots in a CS1 college course on introductory programming. The system has been implemented u...
Amy Delman, Lawrence Goetz, Yedidyah Langsam, Theo...
A study was conducted across multiple open source software online technical help communities. This paper presents the types of discussions that occur, the types of questions asked...
Vandana Singh, Michael B. Twidale, David M. Nichol...
This paper describes work in progress on how to build open source communities. The proposed approach is based on exploiting existing social software communities and applications t...
We explore online technical support of open source software by a study of postings to discussion boards. Our results indicate that there are several types of detail that are requi...