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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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Everything I needed to know about teaching I learned in kindergarten: bringing elementary education techniques to undergraduate
By expanding the teaching styles used in computer science classrooms, we can expand the audience of students that enjoy and excel in technology. Rather than focusing on major curr...
Shannon Pollard, Robert C. Duvall
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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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Back to basics in CS1 and CS2
This paper describes a significant redesign of the introductory courses at the University of Washington that has led to increased enrollments, increased student satisfaction and a...
Stuart Reges
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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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Personality types, learning styles, and an agile approach to software engineering education
This paper describes an initiative at North Carolina State University in which the undergraduate software engineering class was restructured in layout and in presentation. The cha...
Lucas Layman, Travis Cornwell, Laurie A. Williams
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SIGECOM
2006
ACM
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Empirical mechanism design: methods, with application to a supply-chain scenario
Our proposed methods employ learning and search techniques to estimate outcome features of interest as a function of mechanism parameter settings. We illustrate our approach with ...
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Christopher Kiekintveld, Mic...
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SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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Derby/S: a DBMS for sample-based query answering
Although approximate query processing is a prominent way to cope with the requirements of data analysis applications, current database systems do not provide integrated and compre...
Anja Klein, Rainer Gemulla, Philipp Rösch, Wo...