This panel will examine the challenges associated with establishing and maintaining computer science subject associations and ensuring their potential for improving all aspects of teaching and learning. The members of this panel have a wealth of ...

This panel will focus on the current state of Computer Science education in Turkey. The panel will include invited members from a variety of institutions, including Computer Education and Instructional Technology departments and Computer Engineering ...

In this paper, we describe a new method for using the Lego Mindstorm NXT robot as a learning tool in automata theory.

In this contribution the authors present an innovative conception of and first experiences with a lecture "Didactics of Informatics I (DoI1)", which is a mandatory lecture for Informatics student teachers at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and ...

The goal of this project is to have students create a communications medium through which people from local cultures and researchers can use to contribute, analyze, and ultimately understand the practices of different cultural groups around the globe, ...

The issue addressed in the following lines is that of the learning of the Input/Output (I/O) subject in computer engineering. It is a subject that is taught in many different ways, although it appears in virtually every curriculum. The next two sections ...

This paper presents a course that explores the borders of database systems and their relations with the philosophical movement of phenomenology, all framed in a humanistic informatics context.

Educators recommend that students become acquainted with different programming paradigms in order to acquire alternative ways of computational thinking and various approaches for problem solving. Since students, learning different paradigms show both, ...

The assignments in a four-week unit on data communications protocols in a first networking course are designed to increase student participation in their learning. In this unit, students are introduced to the OSI reference model and to the DHCP, ...

Developing and sharing teaching material is a significant challenge for users and developers of novel teaching tools and techniques. The Greenroom is a community web site for teachers using the Greenfoot software that provides a novel design to overcome ...

Caches can be one of the more difficult subjects to teach in computer organization introductory courses. To aid this, we introduce an applet, VCache, which can visualize cache interactions on various caches with different sizes, structures and policies. ...

Because of the web, JavaScript (JS) is one of the most popular programming languages today. Despite the importance, JS is rarely in the core of programming courses. Although JS might not be in the core, it has still a role in many courses. In this paper ...

We introduce js-parsons - MIT licensed JavaScript widget to embed Parson's puzzles to any HTML. The novelty of js-parsons is the 2-dimensional drag-and-drop of the code lines. Firstly, the code lines in the solution need to be in correct order as in the ...