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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A teamwork-based approach to programming fundamentals with scheme, smalltalk & java
In October 2004 the University of Lugano in southern Switzerland established a new faculty of informatics. Its founding principles are innovation in teaching and faculty participa...
Michele Lanza, Amy L. Murphy, Romain Robbes, Mirce...
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
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
175views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
14 years 17 days ago
MPCT: media propelled computational thinking
Media-Propelled Computational Thinking (MPCT – pronounced impact) is a course designed to introduce programming in the context of engaging problems in media computation, math, a...
Eric Andrew Freudenthal, Mary K. Roy, Alexandria N...
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
202views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
A tutorial program for propositional logic with human/computer interactive learning
This paper describes a tutorial program that serves a double role as an educational tool and a research environment. First, it introduces students to fundamental concepts of propo...
Stacy Lukins, Alan Levicki, Jennifer Burg
ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
From objects-first to design-first with multimedia and intelligent tutoring
“Objects-first” is an increasingly popular strategy for teaching object-oriented programming by introducing the concepts of objects, classes, and instances before procedural e...
Sally H. Moritz, Fang Wei, Shahida M. Parvez, Glen...