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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Introducing PyLighter: dynamic code highlighter
Like a screenplay, a program is both a static artifact and instructions for a dynamic performance. This duality can keep laypeople from appreciating the complexity of software sys...
Michael G. Boland, Curtis C. Cliburn
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Python CS1 as preparation for C++ CS2
How suitable is a Python-based CS1 course as preparation for a C++-based CS2 course? After fifteen years of using C++ for both CS1 and CS2, the Computer Science Department at Mich...
Richard J. Enbody, William F. Punch, Mark McCullen
HICSS
2002
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Technology Supported Learning Applied to an Innovative, Integrated Curriculum for First-Year Engineering Majors
In September of 1998, the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth piloted an innovative, integrated, first-year curriculum. It dramatically changed 31 ...
Paul J. Fortier, Emily Fowler, Raymond N. Laoulach...
SIGCSE
2000
ACM
132views Education» more  SIGCSE 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Empirical investigation throughout the CS curriculum
Empirical skills are playing an increasingly important role in the computing profession and our society. But while traditional computer science curricula are effective in teaching...
David W. Reed, Craig S. Miller, Grant Braught
ICSEA
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Model for the Effect of Caching on Algorithmic Efficiency in Radix based Sorting
— This paper demonstrates that the algorithmic performance of end user programs may be greatly affected by the two or three level caching scheme of the processor, and we introduc...
Arne Maus, Stein Gjessing