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ACE
2004
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Executable/Translatable UML in Computing Education
The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is a diagrammatic notation widely used in the computing industry and often taught in universities as a way to represent software requirements ...
Shayne Flint, Henry Gardner, Clive Boughton
ACE
2004
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The Influence of Web-supported Independent Activities and Small Group Work on Students' Epistemological Beliefs
Epistemological beliefs are those concerning the nature of knowledge and learning: beliefs about how individuals come to know, and how knowledge is constructed. There is growing e...
Denise Tolhurst
ACE
2004
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TinkerNet: A Low-Cost Networking Laboratory
The 2002 SIGCOMM Workshop on Educational Challenges for Computer Networking [Kur02a] exposed many issues related to teaching computer networking with the need for a laboratory in ...
Michael Erlinger, Mart Molle, Titus Winters, Chris...
ACE
2004
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Five Myths of Assessment
This paper describes some issues concerning assessment and the corresponding motivation for students to work in a desired manner. The issues came from studying assessment in the R...
Mats Daniels, Anders Berglund, Arnold Neville Pear...
ACE
2004
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The Cryptic Crossword Puzzle as a Useful Analogue in Teaching Programming
Contrary to the apparent beliefs of many students, computer programming and problem solving are not amenable to purely book learning. These skills can be acquired only by practice...
Simon
ACE
2004
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New Arrival Students: Mitigating Factors on the Culture of the Computing Learning Environment
Over the past decade Australian and New Zealand educational institutions have experienced a rapid increase in the numbers of "New Arrivals" - immigrant and international...
Barbara J. Crump
ACE
2004
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From Informal to Formal: Creating the Australasian Computing Education Community
The advent of Web technology has enabled new ways in which groups of people may interact, leading to the development of online communities. In an academic environment these virtua...
Judy Sheard, Angela Carbone
ACE
2004
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Peer Testing in Software Engineering Projects
For the last six years, students in the Software Engineering Project course at the University of Tasmania have undertaken projects in teams of four or five members. Since 1998 pee...
Nicole Clark
ACE
2004
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Managing Large Class Assessment
ExamGen is a software application developed at Queensland University of Technology to assist instructors with assessment in large classes (250+). The ExamGen program was developed...
Anthony Rhodes, Karyn Bower, Peter Bancroft
ACE
2004
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Automating the Estimation of Project Size from Software Design Tools Using Modified Function Points
Final year students in the Bachelor of Computing complete an industry project where they work in teams to build an IT system for an external client. Grading projects in these circ...
Jason Ceddia, Martin Dick