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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
A data mining course for computer science: primary sources and implementations
An undergraduate elective course in data mining provides a strong opportunity for students to learn research skills, practice data structures, and enhance their understanding of a...
David R. Musicant
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
146views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Introductory game creation: no programming required
Many incoming college freshmen have accumulated a significant number of hours of experience playing computer games. Extending that experience to actual game creation activities ca...
A. T. Chamillard
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Foss 101: engaging introductory students in the open source movement
Can engaging students in free and open source software (FOSS) pique their interest in computer science? This paper describes an introductory computer science course that introduce...
Ralph Morelli, Trishan R. de Lanerolle
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Personality types, learning styles, and an agile approach to software engineering education
This paper describes an initiative at North Carolina State University in which the undergraduate software engineering class was restructured in layout and in presentation. The cha...
Lucas Layman, Travis Cornwell, Laurie A. Williams
ITICSE
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Pedagogical power tools for teaching Java
We describe a Java toolkit that is designed to support the creation of powerful and extensible GUI interfaces during the first year computer science course. The goals of this tool...
Jeff Raab, Richard Rasala, Viera K. Proulx