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SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Closed laboratories with embedded instructional research design for CS1
Closed laboratories are becoming an increasingly popular approach to teaching introductory computer science courses. However, as observed in [1], “Considering the prevalence of ...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Suzette Person, Gwen N...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
PhidgetLab: crossing the border from virtual to real-world objects
Teaching pupils the ideas behind objects in programming languages can be difficult since these concepts are mostly and not comprehensible at first sight. Etoys as a visual progra...
Michael Haupt, Michael Perscheid, Robert Hirschfel...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Experience report: CS1 for majors with media computation
Previous reports of a media computation approach to teaching programming have either focused on pre-CS1 courses or courses for non-majors. We report the adoption of a media comput...
Beth Simon, Päivi Kinnunen, Leo Porter, Dov Z...
DAGSTUHL
2010
15 years 7 months ago
Illustrative Focus+Context Approaches in Interactive Volume Visualization
Illustrative techniques are a new and exciting direction in visualization research. Traditional techniques which have been used by scientific illustrators for centuries are re-exa...
Stefan Bruckner, M. Eduard Gröller, Klaus Mue...
ITICSE
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Curve and surface interpolation and approximation: knowledge unit and software tool
This paper describes a knowledge unit and the use of a software tool, DesignMentor, for teaching a very challenging topic in computer graphics and visualization, namely: curve and...
John Fisher, John L. Lowther, Ching-Kuang Shene