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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
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CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Computing (or not) Quasi-Periodicity Functions of Tilings
Abstract. We know that tilesets that can tile the plane always admit a quasiperiodic tiling [4, 8], yet they hold many uncomputable properties [3, 11, 21, 25]. The quasi-periodicit...
Alexis Ballier, Emmanuel Jeandel
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
110views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Personalizing CS1 with robots
We have developed a CS1 curriculum that uses a robotics context to teach introductory programming [1]. Core to our approach is that each student has their own personal robot. Our ...
Jay Summet, Deepak Kumar, Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel ...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
147views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
16 years 7 days ago
Automated tutoring for a database skills training environment
Universities are increasingly offering courses online. Feedback, assessment, and guidance are important features of this online courseware. Together, in the absence of a human tut...
Claire Kenny, Claus Pahl
JCDL
2004
ACM
94views Education» more  JCDL 2004»
16 years 3 days ago
Element matching in concept maps
Concept maps (CM) are informal, semantic, node-link conceptual graphs used to represent knowledge in a variety of applications. Algorithms that compare concept maps would be usefu...
Byron Marshall, Therani Madhusudan