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GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring Human Visualization of Computer Algorithms
Many educators have used Algorithm Visualization (AV) to teach students of computer science about how computer algorithms work. Our study sheds light on two important questions: (...
Sarah A. Douglas, Christopher D. Hundhausen, Donna...
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Composable specifications for structured shared-memory communication
In this paper we propose a communication-centric approach to specifying and checking how multithreaded programs use shared memory to perform inter-thread communication. Our approa...
Benjamin P. Wood, Adrian Sampson, Luis Ceze, Dan G...
INTERACT
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Chemistry Education: A Tangible Interaction Approach
: This system paper reports on some of the advantages tangible interaction can bring to chemistry education. The paper describes how we realized a Tangible User Interface (TUI) cal...
Morten Fjeld, Patrick Juchli, Benedikt M. Voegtli
SIGCSE
1998
ACM
125views Education» more  SIGCSE 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
Design patterns: an essential component of CS curricula
The field of software patterns has seen an explosion in interest in the last three years. Work to date has been on the recognition, cataloging, and finding of patterns with litt...
Owen L. Astrachan, W. Garrett Mitchener, Geoffrey ...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Test-driven learning in early programming courses
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
David Janzen, Hossein Saiedian