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 How the Internet happened: from Netscape to the iPhone
McCullough B., W W Norton&Co Ltd, New York, NY, 2018. 400 pp. Type: Book (978-0-316435-37-6)
“You’ve come a long way, baby!” For those readers old enough to remember the Virginia Slims advertising campaign, which started in 1969, this phrase refers to the early days of the women’s libera...
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Jul 5 2019 |
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Where students go for knowledge and what they find there
Knox D., Fincher S. ICER 2013 (Proceedings of the 9th Annual International ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, San Diego, CA, Aug 12-14, 2013) 35-40, 2013. Type: Proceedings
If you ask the typical instructor where students go for knowledge, she will almost surely say the classroom. But it should be clear that students learn outside of class as well. This fact is even more obvious in our field, and it has b...
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Oct 4 2013 |
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How we teach impacts student learning: peer instruction vs. lecture in CS0
Simon B., Parris J., Spacco J. SIGCSE 2013 (Proceeding of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Denver, CO, Mar 6-9, 2013) 41-46, 2013. Type: Proceedings
Assuming we know what we want to teach, what is the best way to convey this information? There are many papers on how to improve teaching and retention in computer science courses. This one focuses on the method of presentation itself....
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May 9 2013 |
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Exploring experienced professionals’ reflections on computing education
Exter M., Turnage N. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 12(3): 1-23, 2012. Type: Article
What are the most useful things learned in the formal education of a computing professional, and what in the nonformal? What should an ideal undergraduate curriculum look like, to best prepare students for their future careers?...
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Nov 20 2012 |
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Assessment of foundation courses for recruiting non-CS students into master program in computer science
Kongmunvattana A., Summers W. ACM-SE 2012 (Proceedings of the 50th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, Mar 29-31, 2012) 355-356, 2012. Type: Proceedings
Computer science (CS) is rare among the sciences in that students can enter a master’s degree program without a previous undergraduate degree in the field. Many schools take advantage of this by offering non-CS graduates some...
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Jun 6 2012 |
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Mind your language: on novices’ interactions with error messages
Marceau G., Fisler K., Krishnamurthi S. Onward! 2011 (Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software, Portland, OR, Oct 22-27, 2011) 3-18, 2011. Type: Proceedings
Anyone who has taught an introductory programming course knows that students are often baffled by the error messages they receive from compilers or integrated development environments (IDEs). On the one hand, this statement seems so ob...
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Dec 21 2011 |
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Pro Oracle SQL
Morton K., Sands R., Still J., Shamsudeen R., Osborne K., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2010. 600 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430232-28-5)
When SQL is used for large-scale applications, it is not enough to have a query that gives correct results; the user must also be concerned with how long it takes to execute the query. Whereas we tell relatively naive users to let the ...
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Nov 3 2011 |
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Making discrete mathematics relevant
Remshagen A. ACM SE 2010 (Proceedings of the 48th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, Oxford, MS, Apr 15-17, 2010) 1-6, 2010. Type: Proceedings, Reviews: (1 of 2)
Anyone who has taught a course in discrete mathematics knows that it can be a problem to motivate students and keep them interested in the material. Almost everyone agrees that the solution is not to use a “lemma-theorem-proo...
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Aug 8 2011 |
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Simulating complex systems by cellular automata
Hoekstra A., Kroc J., Sloot P., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2010. 384 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642122-02-6)
To most computer scientists, the term cellular automata (CA) is associated with John Conway’s Game of Life. While this association is understandable, over the past ten to 15 years, CA have been used to study a variety ...
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Feb 15 2011 |
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Elements of automata theory
Sakarovitch J., Thomas R. (trans.), Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2009. 785 pp. Type: Book (978-0-521844-25-3), Reviews: (2 of 3)
Despite its modest title, this book is an extremely comprehensive and well-written analysis of the field. Sakarovitch presents “automata theory as a basic, fundamental subject, known and used by everyone.” Rather th...
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May 14 2010 |
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