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INFOSECCD
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Is attack better than defense?: teaching information security the right way
A recent trend in security education is towards teaching offensive techniques which were originally developed by hackers. This reflects tendencies in the professional world where ...
Martin Mink, Felix C. Freiling
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
366views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
16 years 2 days ago
Using asynchronous discussions to enhance student participation in CS courses
As Computer Science (CS) educators, we are involved in teaching a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses such as database management systems, networking, software developme...
Bhagyavati, Stan Kurkovsky, Christopher C. Whitehe...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
133views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
16 years 2 days ago
Designing, implementing, and analyzing a placement test for introductory CS courses
An introductory CS1 course presents problems for educators and students due to students’ diverse background in programming knowledge and exposure. Students who enroll in CS1 als...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Suzette Person, Gwen N...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
88views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch
This paper describes Scratch, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers. We report on the Scratch programming exp...
John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai...
ELPUB
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Open Access Citation Rates and Developing Countries
Academics, having written their peer reviewed articles, may at some stage in the make their work Open Access (OA). They can do this by self-archiving an electronic version of thei...
Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim, Fytton Rowland