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ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Don't be a phish: steps in user education
Phishing, e-mails sent out by hackers to lure unsuspecting victims into giving up confidential information, has been the cause of countless security breaches and has experienced i...
Stefan A. Robila, James W. Ragucci
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Encouraging the development of undergraduate researchers in computer vision
In a small computer science department without a graduate program, it is sometimes difficult to attract research students. This is particularly true for research in computer visio...
Clark F. Olson
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Not seeing the forest for the trees: novice programmers and the SOLO taxonomy
Raymond Lister, Beth Simon, Errol Thompson, Jacque...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Creating a realistic context for team projects in HCI
Team projects are nowadays common practice in HCI education. This paper focuses on the role of clients and users in team projects in introductory HCI courses. In order to provide ...
Herman Koppelman, Betsy van Dijk
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Agents help students in ProgrammingLand
ProgrammingLand is an online system for delivering content to introductory computer science courses as a substitute for a conventional textbook. Because the system has a large num...
Curt D. Hill, Vijayakumar Shanmugasundaram, Martin...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Fast application development to demonstrate computer graphics concepts
Computer graphics concepts have a high visual component. For that reason, teaching this subject should be enriched with the use of small applications showing concepts like near an...
Pedro Pablo Gómez-Martín, Marco Anto...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Gender gap in computer science does not exist in one former soviet republic: results of a study
It is well known that women’s involvement in the field of Computer Science is very low in the USA. This is viewed as a significant problem and has become a great concern to educ...
Hasmik Gharibyan, Stephan Gunsaulus
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Putting threshold concepts into context in computer science education
This paper describes Threshold Concepts, a theory of learning that distinguishes core concepts whose characteristics can make them troublesome in learning. With an eye to applying...
Anna Eckerdal, Robert McCartney, Jan Erik Mostr&ou...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
IREEL: remote experimentation with real protocols and applications over emulated network
: This paper presents a novel e­learning platform  called   IREEL.   IREEL   is   a   virtual   laboratory   allowing  students to drive experiments with real...
Laurent Dairaine, Ernesto Exposito, Guillaume Jour...