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2008
ACM
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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
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Broadening participation through scalable game design
Game development is quickly gaining popularity in introductory programming courses. Motivational and educational aspects of game development are hard to balance and often sacrific...
Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
A cross-domain visual learning engine for interactive generation of instructional materials
We present the design and development of a Visual Learning Engine, a tool that can form the basis for interactive development of visually rich teaching and learning modules across...
K. R. Subramanian, T. Cassen
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Cybercivics: a novel approach to reaching k-12 students with the social relevance of computer science
This paper describes CyberCivics, a novel approach to computer science outreach that integrates hands-on computing experiences with the study of contemporary social and political ...
Jim Owens, Jeanna Matthews
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Computer science olympiad: exploring computer science through competition
Generating interest in specialized areas of Computer Science (CS) is one of the goals of the department of Computer and Information Science at Spelman College as with most departm...
Iretta B. C. Kearse, Charles Hardnett