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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Foss 101: engaging introductory students in the open source movement
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...
Ralph Morelli, Trishan R. de Lanerolle
FECS
2009
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13 years 7 months ago
Development of a System for Teaching C/C++ Using Robots and Open Source Software in a CS1 Course
- 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...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
77views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Users of Open Source Software - How Do They Get Help?
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...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Exploiting social software to build open source communities
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...
Imed Hammouda, Timo Aaltonen, Petri Sirkkala
HICSS
2006
IEEE
89views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Open Source Technical Support: A Look at Peer Help-Giving
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...
Vandana Singh, Michael B. Twidale, Dinesh Rathi