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SIGCSE
1993
ACM
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Getting research students started: a tale of two courses
Ian H. Witten, Timothy C. Bell
SIGCSE
1993
ACM
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Mail merge as a first programming language
Jeffrey L. Popyack, Nira Herrmann
SIGCSE
1993
ACM
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The internet programming contest: a report and philosophy
Programming contests can provide a high-profile method for attracting interest in computer science. We describe our philosophy as it pertains to the purpose and merits of program...
Vivek Khera, Owen L. Astrachan, David Kotz
PATAT
1997
Springer
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A Comparison of Annealing Techniques for Academic Course Scheduling
In this study we have tackled the NP-hard problem of academic class scheduling (or timetabling) at the university level. We have investigated a variety of approaches based on simu...
M. A. Saleh Elmohamed, Paul D. Coddington, Geoffre...
PATAT
1997
Springer
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Space Allocation: An Analysis of Higher Education Requirements
In October, 1996 we sent a questionnaire on the subject of university space allocation to the estate managers of ninety six British universities. This was conducted as part of the...
Edmund K. Burke, D. B. Varley
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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Activities to attract high school girls to computer science
We present several activities used in the two-week PipeLINK summer program for high school girls. These hands-on activities and interactive talks, presented mostly by female facul...
Susan H. Rodger, Ellen Lowenfeld Walker
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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Teaching inheritance versus inclusion to first year computer science students
CT This paper describes two laboratory experiments used at the Rochester Institute of Technology to teach first year CS students the difference between inheritance and inclusion (a...
Kenneth A. Reek
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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An object-oriented program development environment for the first programming course
Over the last ten years there has been a major shift in programming language design from procedural languages to object-oriented languages. Most universities have adopted an objec...
Michael Kölling, John Rosenberg