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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
113views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Multidisciplinary students and instructors: a second-year games course
Computer games are a multi-billion dollar industry and have become an important part of our private and social lives. It is only natural, then, that the technology used to create ...
Nathan R. Sturtevant, H. James Hoover, Jonathan Sc...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
154views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Teaching computational thinking through musical live coding in scratch
This paper discusses our experience in teaching an interdisciplinary general education course called Sound Thinking that is offered jointly by our Dept. of Computer Science and De...
Alex Ruthmann, Jesse M. Heines, Gena R. Greher, Pa...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A study of student strategies for the corrective maintenance of concurrent software
Graduates of computer science degree programs are increasingly being asked to maintain large, multi-threaded software systems; however, the maintenance of such systems is typicall...
Scott D. Fleming, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stire...
EDM
2010
170views Data Mining» more  EDM 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Online Curriculum Planning Behavior of Teachers
Curriculum planning is perhaps one of the most important tasks teachers must perform before instruction. While this task is facilitated by a wealth of existing online tools and res...
Keith E. Maull, Manuel Gerardo Saldivar, Tamara Su...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
110views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Personalizing CS1 with robots
We have developed a CS1 curriculum that uses a robotics context to teach introductory programming [1]. Core to our approach is that each student has their own personal robot. Our ...
Jay Summet, Deepak Kumar, Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel ...