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ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
WADEIn II: a case for adaptive explanatory visualization
Adaptive explanatory visualization is an attempt to integrate two promising approaches to program visualization: adaptive visualization and explanatory visualization. The goal of ...
Peter Brusilovsky, Tomasz D. Loboda
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Foundational actions: teaching software engineering when time is tight
Often Software Engineering courses approach educating undergraduates in good processes and practices by using a simulated product development environment, following all of the ste...
Jerry Boetje
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
One step further the ACM K-12 final report: a proposal for level 1: computer organization for K-8
Teaching computer science to children is a major priority in most countries in the world. Nevertheless, Computer Science curricula do not seem to address the children’s world, c...
Giovanni M. Bianco, Simonetta Tinazzi
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
High school computing clubs: a pilot study
While classes in IT skills are endemic, high school students in the UK rarely experience computer science. We present a pilot of a scheme that aims to go some way towards addressi...
Andrew Bennett, Joanna Briggs, Martyn Clark
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Student activity in seminars: designing multi-functional assessment events
In this paper, we describe assessment in seminars where high student activity is encouraged. The aim of our work has been to design assessment events that result in deep learning ...
Karin Axelsson, Ulf Melin, Tommy Wedlund
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Design and implementation of a modern compiler course
Current literature states that the undergraduate curriculum can no longer afford the luxury of a traditional compiler construction course. Nevertheless, there is an increasing ne...
William M. Waite, Assad Jarrahian, Michele H. Jack...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Once she makes it, she is there: gender differences in computer science study
When you sit in a Computer Science lecture at any university in the western world, what are the chances that the person sitting next to you will be a woman? Furthermore, what are ...
Tamar Vilner, Ela Zur