Sciweavers

973 search results - page 122 / 195
» Updating computer science education
Sort
View
ITICSE
2009
ACM
16 years 26 days ago
Relating research and teaching: learning from experiences and beliefs
The relationship between research and teaching has possible benefits and inherent tensions. Exploring the potentially beneficial relationship is of interest and possible value to ...
Su White, Alastair Irons
ICFP
2003
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Software is discrete mathematics
A three-year study collected information bearing on the question of whether studying mathematics improves programming skills. An analysis of the data revealed significant differen...
Rex L. Page
ITICSE
2006
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
ASSISTing CS1 students to learn: learning approaches and object-oriented programming
Identifying and managing students who experience difficulty with learning to program is a challenge for CS educators. In an attempt to answer the familiar question “What makes f...
Janet Hughes, D. Ramanee Peiris
CCCG
1998
15 years 7 months ago
Dynamic maintenance and visualization of molecular surfaces
Molecular surface computations are often necessary in order to perform synthetic drug design. A critical step in this process is the computation and update of an exact boundary re...
Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Valerio Pascucci, Robert J. H...
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Storytelling alice motivates middle school girls to learn computer programming
We describe Storytelling Alice, a programming environment that introduces middle school girls to computer programming as a means to the end of creating 3D animated stories. Storyt...
Caitlin Kelleher, Randy F. Pausch, Sara B. Kiesler