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SIGITE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Towards using online portfolios in computing courses
The direct experience we had with teaching a summer pre-college computing course in which we adopted an online portfolio approach has led us to consider the use of online portfoli...
Bryan Higgs, Mihaela Sabin
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
131views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Integrating a simulation case study into CS2: developing design, empirical and analysis skills
Case studies are widely used in business and medicine to help students learn from the successes and failures of practitioners in the field. This paper discusses the potential bene...
Kay A. Robbins, Catherine Sauls Key, Keith Dickins...
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
TAICPART
2010
IEEE
126views Education» more  TAICPART 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Improved Testing through Refactoring: Experience from the ProTest Project
We report on how the Wrangler refactoring tool has been used to improve and transform test code for Erlang systems. This has been achieved through the removal of code clones, the i...
Huiqing Li, Simon J. Thompson
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
155views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Towards a top-down approach to teaching an undergraduate grid computing course
Early undergraduate Grid computing courses generally took a bottom-up approach to Grid computing education starting with network protocols, client-server concepts, creating Web an...
Barry Wilkinson, Clayton Ferner