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128 papers

YearTitle / Authors
2008'scratch' your way to introductory cs.
Ursula Wolz, John Maloney, Sarah Monisha Pulimood
2008A bioinformatics track in computer science.
Sami Khuri
2008A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metcalf
2008A citation analysis of the sigcse 2007 proceedings.
Raymond Lister, Ilona Box
2008A conceptual approach to teaching induction for computer science.
Irene Polycarpou, Ana Pasztor, Malek Adjouadi
2008A course in collaborative computing: collaborative learning and research with a global perspective.
Tony Clear, Diana Kassabova
2008A cross-domain visual learning engine for interactive generation of instructional materials.
K. R. Subramanian, T. Cassen
2008A model for high school computer science education: the four key elements that make it!
Orit Hazzan, Judith Gal-Ezer, Lenore Blum
2008A new paradigm for programming competitions.
James F. Bowring
2008A novel approach to K-12 CS education: linking mathematics and computer science.
Mindy Hart, James P. Early, Dennis Brylow
2008A principled approach to teaching OO first.
David Gries
2008A query simulation system to illustrate database query execution.
Brett Allenstein, Andrew Yost, Paul Wagner, Joline Morrison
2008A story-centered, learn-by-doing approach to software engineering education.
Ray Bareiss, Martin L. Griss
2008A system for developing tablet pc applications for education.
Sam Kamin, Michael Hines, Chad Peiper, Boris Capitanu
2008APOGEE: automated project grading and instant feedback system for web based computing.
Xiang Fu, Boris Peltsverger, Kai Qian, Lixin Tao, Jigang Liu
2008Alice: a dying man's passion.
Randy Pausch
2008An early software engineering approach to teaching cs1, cs2 and ai.
T. M. Rao, Sandeep Mitra
2008An experimental laboratory environment for teaching embedded operating systems.
Dennis Brylow
2008An experimental study of cooperative learning in cs1.
Leland L. Beck, Alexander W. Chizhik
2008An image background detection project for a visual exploration of DFS and BFS.
Ali Erkan, Diyan Gochev
2008An interdisciplinary major emphasizing multimedia.
Carol Spradling, Jody Strauch, Craig Warner
2008An open dialogue concerning the state of education policy in computer science.
Robert B. Schnabel, Duncan A. Buell, Joanna Goode, J Strother Moore, Chris Stephenson
2008Automatic extraction of notions from course material.
Michela Pedroni, Manuel Oriol, Bertrand Meyer, Lukas Angerer
2008Backstop: a tool for debugging runtime errors.
Christian Murphy, Eunhee Kim, Gail E. Kaiser, Adam Cannon
2008Bantam: a customizable, java-based, classroom compiler.
Marc L. Corliss, E. Christopher Lewis
2008Bloom's taxonomy revisited: specifying assessable learning objectives in computer science.
Christopher W. Starr, Bill Z. Manaris, RoxAnn H. Stalvey
2008Broadening participation through scalable game design.
Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
2008CS 0.5: a better approach to introductory computer science for majors.
Robert H. Sloan, Patrick Troy
2008CS-1 for scientists.
Greg Wilson, Christine Alvarado, Jennifer Campbell, Rubin H. Landau, Robert Sedgewick
2008Can great research be taught?: independent research with cross-disciplinary thinking and broader impact.
Nick Feamster, Alexander G. Gray
2008Can students reengineer?
Ronald J. Leach, Legand L. Burge III, Harry Keeling
2008Cluster computing for web-scale data processing.
Aaron Kimball, Sierra Michels-Slettvet, Christophe Bisciglia
2008Community connections: lessons learned developing and maintaining a computer science service-learning program.
Christopher H. Brooks
2008Compiler error messages: what can help novices?
Marie-Hélène Nienaltowski, Michela Pedroni, Bertrand Meyer
2008Computer science for everyone: making your computing classes and departments accessible.
Richard E. Ladner, Dan Comden
2008Computer science olympiad: exploring computer science through competition.
Iretta B. C. Kearse, Charles Hardnett
2008Computer science: past, present, and future.
Edward D. Lazowska
2008Course experiences of computing students with disabilities: four case studies.
Katherine Deibel
2008Cross-cultural issues in a tutored video instruction course.
Natalie Linnell, Richard Anderson, Jane Prey
2008Cultural representations of gender among u. s. computer science undergraduates: statistical and data mining results.
Antonio M. Lopez Jr., Kun Zhang, Frederick G. Lopez
2008Curriculum update from the ACM education board: CS2008 and a report on masters degrees.
Lillian N. Cassel, Michael E. Caspersen, Gordon Davies, Renée McCauley, Andrew D. McGettrick, Arthur B. Pyster, Robert H. Sloan
2008Cybercivics: a novel approach to reaching k-12 students with the social relevance of computer science.
Jim Owens, Jeanna N. Matthews
2008Debugging: the good, the bad, and the quirky -- a qualitative analysis of novices' strategies.
Laurie C. Murphy, Gary Lewandowski, Renée McCauley, Beth Simon, Lynda Thomas, Carol Zander
2008Defense against the dark arts.
Mark W. Bailey, Clark L. Coleman, Jack W. Davidson
2008Developing inclusive outreach activities for students with visual impairments.
Stephanie Ludi, Thomas Reichlmayr
2008Engaging constructions: family-based computing experiences for immigrant middle school students.
Maureen Doyle, Kevin G. Kirby, Gary Newell
2008Ethics training and decision-making: do computer science programs need help?
Carol Spradling, Leen-Kiat Soh, Charles Ansorge
2008Evaluating a breadth-first cs 1 for scientists.
Zachary Dodds, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Christine Alvarado, Geoff Kuenning
2008Evolving an integrated curriculum for object-oriented analysis and design.
Sarnath Ramnath, Brahma Dathan
2008Experience offering a course centered on cyberporn.
Joseph D. Oldham
2008Exploring NSF funding opportunities.
Stephen Cooper, Timothy V. Fossum, Harriet G. Taylor
2008Exploring studio-based instructional models for computing education.
Christopher D. Hundhausen, N. Hari Narayanan, Martha E. Crosby
2008Fair division as a means of apportioning software engineering class projects.
Jon Beck
2008Forging connections between life and class using reading assignments: a case study.
Leigh Ann Sudol
2008From sockets and RMI to web services.
Mark A. Holliday, J. Traynham Houston, E. Matthew Jones
2008Game-themed programming assignments: the faculty perspective.
Kelvin Sung, Michael Panitz, Scott Wallace, Ruth Anderson, John Nordlinger
2008Games, stories, or something more traditional: the types of assignments college students prefer.
Daniel C. Cliburn, Susan Miller
2008Games: good/evil.
Susan M. Haller, Brian C. Ladd, Scott T. Leutenegger, John Nordlinger, Jody Paul, Henry MacKay Walker, Carol Zander
2008Grace hopper visits the neighborhood.
Gloria Childress Townsend, Lecia Jane Barker, Suzanne Menzel, Joanne McGrath Cohoon
2008Grid computing at the undergraduate level: can we do it?
Jens Mache, Amy W. Apon, Thomas Feilhauer, Barry Wilkinson
2008Helping him see: guiding a visually impaired student through the computer science curriculum.
Mary Elaine Califf, Mary Goodwin, Jake Brownell
2008Identifying important and difficult concepts in introductory computing courses using a delphi process: selective compression of unicode arrays in java.
Kenneth J. Goldman, Paul Gross, Cinda Heeren, Geoffrey L. Herman, Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk, Michael C. Loui, Craig B. Zilles
2008Implementation of threads as an operating systems project.
John L. Donaldson
2008Improving computer science diversity through summer camps.
Dennis P. Groth, Helen H. Hu, Betty Lauer, Hwajung Lee
2008Improving pedagogical feedback and objective grading.
Tuukka Ahoniemi, Essi Lahtinen, Tommi Reinikainen
2008Improving retention and graduate recruitment through immersive research experiences for undergraduates.
Teresa A. Dahlberg, Tiffany Barnes, Audrey Rorrer, Eve Powell, Lauren Cairco
2008Improving the persistence of first-year undergraduate women in computer science.
Rita Manco Powell
2008Incorporating transformations into jflap for enhanced understanding of automata.
Joan M. Lucas, Jonathan Jarvis
2008Increasing diversity in k-12 computer science: strategies from the field.
Joanna Goode
2008Innovating our self image.
Owen L. Astrachan, Peter J. Denning
2008Innovation, design, and simplicity at google.
Marissa Mayer
2008Inspiring blind high school students to pursue computer science with instant messaging chatbots.
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Maxwell B. Aller, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Jessica O. Leung, Lindsay A. Yazzolino, Richard E. Ladner
2008Integrating agility in the cs curriculum: practices through values.
Brian Hanks, Carol A. Wellington, Thomas Reichlmayr, Cyril M. Coupal
2008Introducing an experimental cognitive robotics curriculum at historically black colleges and universities.
Andrew B. Williams, David S. Touretzky, Ethan J. Tira-Thompson, LaVonne Manning, Chutima Boonthum, Clement S. Allen
2008Isn't it time you had an emulab?
W. David Laverell, Zongming Fei, Jim Griffioen
2008It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Jonas Boustedt, Robert McCartney, Josh Tenenberg, Scott D. Anderson, Caroline M. Eastman, Daniel D. Garcia, Paul V. Gestwicki, Margaret S. Menzin
2008Language design and implementation using ruby and the interpreter pattern.
Ariel Ortiz
2008Language engineering in the context of a popular, inexpensive robot platform.
Li Xu
2008Learning from wrong and creative algorithm design.
David Ginat
2008Local: a model geared towards ubiquitous learning.
Jorge L. V. Barbosa, Rodrigo Hahn, Solon Rabello, Débora Nice Ferrari Barbosa
2008Microwulf: a beowulf cluster for every desk.
Joel C. Adams, Tim H. Brom
2008Misunderstandings about object-oriented design: experiences using code reviews.
Scott A. Turner, Ricardo Quintana-Castillo, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Stephen H. Edwards
2008Mock trials and role-playing in computer ethics courses.
Roxanne L. Canosa, Joan M. Lucas
2008Moving beyond security tracks: integrating security in cs0 and cs1.
Blair Taylor, Shiva Azadegan
2008Multi-player soccer and wireless embedded systems.
Gaetano Borriello, Carl Hartung, Bruce Hemingway, Karl Koscher, Brian Mayton
2008Multidisciplinary students and instructors: a second-year games course.
Nathan R. Sturtevant, H. James Hoover, Jonathan Schaeffer, Sean Gouglas, Michael H. Bowling, Finnegan Southey, Matthew Bouchard, Ghassan Zabaneh
2008Nifty assignments.
Nick Parlante
2008Nifty objects for CS0 and CS1.
Joe Hummel, Carl Alphonce, Joe Bergin, Michael E. Caspersen, Stuart Hansen, James E. Heliotis, Michael Kölling
2008Noteblogging: taking note taking public.
Beth Simon, Krista Davis, William G. Griswold, Michael Kelly, Roshni Malani
2008Operational experience with a virtual networking laboratory.
Charlie Wiseman, Ken Wong, Tilman Wolf, Sergey Gorinsky
2008Patterns for programming in parallel, pedagogically.
Matthew C. Jadud, Jon Simpson, Christian L. Jacobsen
2008Perspectives on history in computing and education.
Vicki L. Almstrum, William Aspray, Mary Anne L. Egan, John Impagliazzo
2008Poogle and the unknown-answer assignment: open-ended, sharable cs1 assignments.
Christopher C. D. Head, Steven A. Wolfman
2008Pre-programming analysis tutors help students learn basic programming concepts.
Wei Jin
2008Preparing students for industry's software engineering needs.
Watts S. Humphrey, Robert Musson, Rafael Salazar
2008Problem solving in community: a necessary shift in cs pedagogy.
Sarah Monisha Pulimood, Ursula Wolz
2008Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2008, Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008
J. D. Dougherty, Susan H. Rodger, Sue Fitzgerald, Mark Guzdial
2008Process improvement of peer code review and behavior analysis of its participants.
Yanqing Wang, Yijun Li, Michael Collins, Peijie Liu
2008Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch.
John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai, Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk
2008Publishing in computing education.
Josh Tenenberg, Sally Fincher, John Impagliazzo, Daniel Joyce
2008Rediscovering the passion, beauty, joy and awe: making computing fun again.
Andrew D. McGettrick, Eric Roberts, Daniel D. Garcia, Chris Stevenson
2008Scratching the surface of advanced topics in software engineering: a workshop module for middle school students.
Paolo A. G. Sivilotti, Stacey A. Laugel
2008Security education: a roadmap to the future.
Carol Taylor, Rose K. Shumba
2008Serious fun: peer-led team learning in CS.
Steven Huss-Lederman, Donald Chinn, James Skrentny
2008Socially relevant computing.
Michael Buckley, John Nordlinger, Devika Subramanian
2008Struggles of new college graduates in their first software development job.
Andrew Begel, Beth Simon
2008Student perceptions of computer science: a retention study comparing graduating seniors with cs leavers.
Maureen Biggers, Anne Brauer, Tuba Yilmaz
2008Student understanding of object-oriented programming as expressed in concept maps.
Kate Sanders, Jonas Boustedt, Anna Eckerdal, Robert McCartney, Jan Erik Moström, Lynda Thomas, Carol Zander
2008Supporting student-written tests of gui programs.
Matthew Thornton, Stephen H. Edwards, Roy Patrick Tan, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones
2008Teaching cryptography with open-source software.
Alasdair McAndrew
2008Teaching software development with ATDD and easyaccept.
Jacques Philippe Sauvé, Osório Lopes Abath Neto
2008Teaching students to think nondeterministically.
Michal Armoni, Noa Lewenstein, Mordechai Ben-Ari
2008Test-driven learning in early programming courses.
David S. Janzen, Hossein Saiedian
2008The effect of using problem-solving software tutors on the self-confidence of female students.
Amruth N. Kumar
2008The effects of pair-programming on individual programming skill.
Grant Braught, L. Martin Eby, Tim Wahls
2008The expansion of CS4HS: an outreach program for high school teachers.
Lenore Blum, Thomas J. Cortina, Edward D. Lazowska, Joe Wise
2008The funnel that grew our cis major in the cs desert.
Janice L. Pearce, Mario Nakazawa
2008The game of life: an outreach model for high school students with disabilities.
Richard E. Ladner, Tammy VanDeGrift
2008The mystery of "b : = (b = false)".
Stuart Reges
2008The role of virtualization in computing education.
Alessio Gaspar, Sarah Langevin, William D. Armitage, R. Sekar, Thomas E. Daniels
2008Towards a top-down approach to teaching an undergraduate grid computing course.
Barry Wilkinson, Clayton Ferner
2008Ucigame, a java library for games.
Daniel Frost
2008Undergraduate data communications and networking projects using opnet and wireshark software.
Vasil Hnatyshin, Andrea F. Lobo
2008Undergraduate research experiences in data mining.
Imad Rahal
2008Using cognitive conflict and visualisation to improve mental models held by novice programmers.
Linxiao Ma, John D. Ferguson, Marc Roper, Isla Ross, Murray Wood
2008Using iPodLinux in an introductory OS course.
Barry Lawson, Lewis Barnett
2008Wikis: collaborative learning for cs education.
Edward F. Gehringer, Lillian N. Cassel, Katherine Deibel, William J. Joel
2008Will they stay or will they go?
Joanne McGrath Cohoon, Zhen Wu, Luo Luo