This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Network protocol design is usually an informal process where debugging is based on successive iterations of a prototype implementation. The feedback provided by a prototype can be...
Running unit tests suites with contemporary tools such as JUNIT can show the presence of bugs, but not their locations. This is different from checking a program with a compiler, w...
Abstract. This paper proposes a method for detecting errors concerning article usage and singular/plural usage based on the mass count distinction. Although the mass count distinct...
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...