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2007
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Teaching Java backwards
Presenting material in a more object-oriented way is a growing trend in Computer Science education. er takes the idea of objects-first or abstraction-first teaching a step further...
Philip Machanick
CORR
2007
Springer
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On Evaluating the Rate-Distortion Function of Sources with Feed-Forward and the Capacity of Channels with Feedback
— In this work, we study the problem of evaluating the performance limit of two communication problems that are closely related to each other- source coding with feed-forward and...
Ramji Venkataramanan, S. Sandeep Pradhan
CORR
2007
Springer
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Polyhedral representation conversion up to symmetries
We give a short survey on computational techniques which can be used to solve the representation conversion problem for polyhedra up to symmetries. In particular we discuss decompo...
David Bremner, Mathieu Dutour Sikiric, Achill Sch&...
CORR
2007
Springer
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Algorithmic Semi-algebraic Geometry and Topology -- Recent Progress and Open Problems
Abstract. We give a survey of algorithms for computing topological invariants of semi-algebraic sets with special emphasis on the more recent developments in designing algorithms f...
Saugata Basu
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Evaluating a breadth-first cs 1 for scientists
This paper presents a thorough evaluation of CS for Scientists, a CS 1 course designed to provide future scientists with an overview of the discipline. The course takes a breadth-...
Zachary Dodds, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Christine Alva...