SIGCSE
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
A significant focus in the United States recently has been to increase engagement and interest in STEM curricula, particularly among girls and underrepresented minorities [3]. In ...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Game design appears to be a promising approach to interest K-12 students in Computer Science. Unfortunately, balancing motivational and educational concerns is truly challenging. ...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Topics in the field of Web Information Retrieval (IR) and web search are slowly being introduced at the undergraduate level. In this paper, we show how the curriculum for a new u...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper, we propose a new approach to thinking about and implementing Computer Science curricula in secondary education. The characteristic feature is to organize the items ...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Historically, Harvey Mudd College (HMC) has had very little success attracting women to the study of computer science: women have chosen CS less than any other field of study. In...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
The technique of scaling hardware performance through increasing the number of cores on a chip requires programmers to learn to write parallel code that can exploit this hardware....
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Compiler and programming language implementation courses are integral parts of many computer science curricula. However, the range of topics necessary to teach in such a course ar...