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ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Experience report: CS1 for majors with media computation
Previous reports of a media computation approach to teaching programming have either focused on pre-CS1 courses or courses for non-majors. We report the adoption of a media comput...
Beth Simon, Päivi Kinnunen, Leo Porter, Dov Z...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
PhidgetLab: crossing the border from virtual to real-world objects
Teaching pupils the ideas behind objects in programming languages can be difficult since these concepts are mostly and not comprehensible at first sight. Etoys as a visual progra...
Michael Haupt, Michael Perscheid, Robert Hirschfel...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
The SOM family: virtual machines for teaching and research
This paper introduces the SOM (Simple Object Machine) family of virtual machine (VM) implementations, a collection of VMs for the same Smalltalk dialect addressing students at di...
Michael Haupt, Robert Hirschfeld, Tobias Pape, Gre...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Skills and knowledge for hire: leeds source-it
We present a pilot for a student consultancy service offering students the opportunity to work with internal and external clients on real life projects to learn and enhance trans...
Royce Neagle, Alison Marshall, Roger Boyle
ITICSE
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Enhancing K-12 education with alice programming adventures
This paper describes the integration of the Alice 3D virtual worlds environment into many disciplines in elementary school, middle school and high school. We have developed a wide...
Susan H. Rodger, Maggie Bashford, Lana Dyck, Jenna...