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ACE
2004
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Teaching Java First: Experiments with a Pigs-Early Pedagogy
This paper introduces PigWorld, a tool for teaching Java to novice programmers, via the objects-early style. Three design guidelines forobject-early assignments are discussed: (1)...
Raymond Lister
ACE
2004
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Teaching ICT to Pacific Island Background Students
This paper proposes that in order for students from Pacific Islands backgrounds in multicultural information and communication technology (ICT) classrooms to gain maximum benefit ...
Savae Latu, Alison Young
ACE
2004
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VELNET (Virtual Environment for Learning Networking)
The problems of providing a real, physical specialist laboratory to teach computer networking such as, the lack of funding and physical space and the risks and threats to the netw...
Bruce Kneale, Ain Y. De Horta, Ilona Box
ACE
2004
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Using Extreme Programming in a Capstone Project
Karen Keefe, Martin Dick
ACE
2004
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Developing and Implementing a Professional Doctorate in Computing
This paper describes the processes involved in developing and implementing the Doctor of Computing (DComp) programme at UNITEC Institute of Technology. It is the first professiona...
Donald Joyce, Alison Young
ACE
2004
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Uni Cheats Racket: A Case Study in Plagiarism Investigation
Some students cheat by buying solutions to assignments and paying other people to sit their exams. We investigated such a case in 2001, in which around thirty students appear to h...
Justin Zobel
ACE
2004
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Facilitating Successful Online Computing Courses While Minimising Extra Tutor Workload
A key problem in facilitating a successful online course is the highly time -consuming nature of the administrative and pedagogical tasks involved. It is also difficult to achieve...
Stuart Young, Mae McSporran
ACE
2004
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Making Large Class Teaching More Adaptive With the Logic-ITA
1 Adaptive teaching does not usually rhyme with large number of students in class. Given the small amount of face to face and the disproportionate ratio, teachers have to use their...
Kalina Yacef
ACE
2004
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Learning about Software Development - Should Programming Always Come First?
The issues surrounding curriculum design of many Computer Science and Software Engineering degree programs1 are many and complex. In particular, the question of whether prior prog...
Margaret Hamilton, Liz Haywood