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COMPUTER
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Testable, Reusable Units of Cognition
The educational content of a technical topic consists, ultimately, of elementary chunks of knowledge. Identifying and classifying such units -- Testable, Reusable Units of Cogniti...
Bertrand Meyer
VL
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Towards the Automatic Recognition of Computational Thinking for Adaptive Visual Language Learning
Visual programming languages can be used to make computer science more accessible to a broad range of students. The evaluative focus of current research in the area of visual lang...
Kyu Han Koh, Ashok R. Basawapatna, Vicki Bennett, ...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
130views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 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
JSS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
An empirical investigation into branch coverage for C programs using CUTE and AUSTIN
Automated test data generation has remained a topic of considerable interest for several decades because it lies at the heart of attempts to automate the process of Software Testi...
Kiran Lakhotia, Phil McMinn, Mark Harman
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Experiments with Program Parallelization Using Archetypes and Stepwise Refinement
Parallel programming continues to be difficult and error-prone, whether starting from specifications or from an existing sequential program. This paper presents (1) a methodology f...
Berna L. Massingill