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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
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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Writing across the computer science curriculum
At our university, as at many others across the country, there is a movement to integrate the common core subjects with the disciplinary studies. While in the past writing has bee...
Harriet J. Fell, Viera K. Proulx, John Casey
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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The quest for excellence in designing CS1/CS2 assignments
We identify the principles involved in designing effective programming assignments for CS1/CS2. Through a case study of a particularly successful recursion assignment, we establis...
Todd J. Feldman, Julie Zelenski
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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Database theory in practice: learning from cooperative group projects
lhis paper describes the use of cooperative group learning concepts in support of an undergraduate database mrtnagement course that emphasizes the theoretical and practical aspect...
Suzanne W. Dietrich, Susan Darling Urban
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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Teaching computer science: experience from four continents
Mats Daniels, Judith Gal-Ezer, Ian Sanders, G. Joy...
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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Thinking about binary trees in an object-oriented world
The Binary Search Tree serves as an important example when teaching data structures. We explore new approaches to understanding the implementation of a Binary Search Tree, using c...
A. Michael Berman, Robert C. Duvall