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SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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16 years 1 months ago
Scalable game design and the development of a checklist for getting computational thinking into public schools
Game design appears to be a promising approach to interest K-12 students in Computer Science. Unfortunately, balancing motivational and educational concerns is truly challenging. ...
Alexander Repenning, David C. Webb, Andri Ioannido...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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Teaching computational thinking through musical live coding in scratch
This paper discusses our experience in teaching an interdisciplinary general education course called Sound Thinking that is offered jointly by our Dept. of Computer Science and De...
Alex Ruthmann, Jesse M. Heines, Gena R. Greher, Pa...
PPOPP
1993
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Computation Migration: Enhancing Locality for Distributed-Memory Parallel Systems
We describe computation migration,a new technique that is based on compile-time program transformations, for accessing remote data in a distributed-memory parallel system. In cont...
Wilson C. Hsieh, Paul Wang, William E. Weihl
PUC
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Yesterday's tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing's dominant vision
Ubiquitous computing is unusual amongst technological research arenas. Most areas of computer science research, such as programming language implementation, distributed operating s...
Genevieve Bell, Paul Dourish
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Modalities for building relationships with handheld computer agents
In this paper we describe the design of a relational agent interface for handheld computers and the results of a study exploring the effectiveness of different useragent interacti...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Mauer