ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 39

Volume 39, Number 1, March 2007

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  Ingrid Russell, Susan M. Haller, J. D. Dougherty, Susan H. Rodger:
  Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2007, Covington, Kentucky, USA, March 7-11, 2007. ACM 2007, ISBN 1-59593-361-1 [contents]

Volume 39, Number 2, June 2007

Taking the high road

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  C. Dianne Martin:
  Leadership, teamwork, and ethics in the development of IT professionals. 8-9

Thinking issues

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  Tony Clear:
  Computing relationships: transactional algorithms yield to social networks. 9-10

IS education

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  Heikki Topi:
  Revising the IS undergraduate model curriculum. 10-11

CS research

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  Raymond Lister:
  Strangers, enemies, terms and taxonomies. 12-13

Classroom issues

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  Henry MacKay Walker:
  Reading and class work. 13-14

Community college corner

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  Robert D. Campbell:
  Reflections on a history. 15

Distance education

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  Yoram Eshet:
  Teaching online: survival skills for the effective teacher. 16-18

IFIP vibes

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  A. Joe Turner:
  IFIP educational activities. 18-19

Out of the box

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  Owen L. Astrachan:
  Cutting apron strings. 19-20

Percolations

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  Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk:
  We can do interdisciplinarity. 20-21

Upsilon Pi Epsilon

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  Jeffrey L. Popyack:
  New alliances and continuing excellence. 21-23

Colorful challenges

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  David Ginat:
  Domino arrangements. 24-25

Math CountS

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Reflections on teaching discrete math for the first time. 24

Nifty assignments

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  Nick Parlante:
  Nifty reflections. 25-26

Reviewed papers

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  Kevin L. Huggins, Rachelle DeCoste:
  Reflections on teaching discrete math for the first time. 28-31
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  Jens Bennedsen, Michael E. Caspersen:
  Failure rates in introductory programming. 32-36
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  Clayton Lewis:
  Attitudes and beliefs about computer science among students and faculty. 37-41
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  Jeffrey A. Stone, Elinor M. Madigan:
  Integrating reflective writing in CS/IS. 42-45
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  Justin Solomon:
  Putting the science into computer science: treating introductory computer science as the study of algorithms. 46-49
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  Mario Piattini, Félix García:
  Adapting the course "quality of information systems" to E.H.E.A guidelines. 50-53
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  Carol Edmondson:
  How to fail a programming assignment. 54-56
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  V. Javier Traver:
  Can user-centered interface design be applied to education? 57-61
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  Christina Preston:
  Braided learning: investigating an emerging model of online professional debate between international educators. 62-64
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  Yuila Stolin, Orit Hazzan:
  Students' understanding of computer science soft ideas: the case of programming paradigm. 65-69
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  John D. N. Dionisio, Caskey L. Dickson, Stephanie E. August, Philip M. Dorin, Ray Toal:
  An open source software culture in the undergraduate computer science curriculum. 70-74
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  Ali Rafieymehr, Richard McKeever:
  Java visual debugger. 75-79
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  Abdul Sattar, Torben Lorenzen:
  Develop a compiler in Java for a compiler design course. 80-82
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  Philip M. Dorin:
  Laboratory redux. 84-87
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  Nurul I. Sarkar, Trevor M. Craig:
  A low-cost PIC unit for teaching computer hardware fundamentals to undergraduates. 88-91
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  Laurent Dairaine, Guillaume Jourjon, Emmanuel Lochin, Sebastien Ardon:
  IREEL: remote experimentation with real protocols and applications over an emulated network. 92-96
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  Wadee S. Alhalabi, Miroslav Kubat, Moiez A. Tapia:
  Search engine ranking efficiency evaluation tool. 97-101

Computer human error

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  Gavriel Yarmish, Danny Kopec:
  Revisiting novice programmer errors. 131-137
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  Roberto Jimeno, M. S. Jorge, Jorge Luis Ortega-Arjona:
  Curb your objects!: an orthodox form for C# classes. 138-141
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  Gennady Lomako:
  Learning computer programming and role of errors in design. 142-145
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  Danny Kopec, Gavriel Yarmish, Patrick Cheung:
  A description and study of intermediate student programmer errors. 146-156
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  Michael Anshel, Sarah Levitan:
  Reducing medical errors using secure RFID technology. 157-159
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  Mohamed K. Saad, Syed V. Ahamed:
  Vulnerabilities of RFID systems in infant abduction protection and patient wander prevention. 160-165
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  Deborah Sturm, Rachel Sturm-Beiss:
  A root cause analysis interface for error reporting. 166-170
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  Alireza Ebrahimi, Christina Schweikert, S. Sayeed, S. Parham, H. Akibu, A. Saeed, W. Parris:
  Website error analysis of colleges and universities on Long Island in New York. 171-176
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  D. A. Quarless:
  Redundant features of design in blackboard (LMS) and user error. 177-179
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  Danny Kopec, Suzanne Tamang:
  Failures in complex systems: case studies, causes, and possible remedies. 180-184
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  Margot Small:
  Design error and reusabilty. 185-187

Volume 39, Number 3, September 2007

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  Janet M. Hughes, D. Ramanee Peiris, Paul T. Tymann:
  Proceedings of the 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2007, Dundee, Scotland, UK, June 25-27, 2007. ACM 2007, ISBN 978-1-59593-610-3 [contents]

Volume 39, Number 4, December 2007

Invited editorial

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  Bill Z. Manaris:
  Dropping CS enrollments: or the emperor's new clothes? 6-10

Taking the high road

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  C. Dianne Martin:
  Blogger ethics and YouTube common sense. 11-12

Thinking professionally

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  Donald Gotterbarn:
  Don't soil the commons: turning the blogosphere into the clogosphere. 12-13

Thinking issues

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  Tony Clear:
  Computing capstone projects and the role of failure in education. 13-15

IS education

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  Heikki Topi:
  Update on the IS model curriculum revision project. 15-16

CS research

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  Raymond Lister:
  The Randolph thesis: CSEd research at the crossroads. 16-18

Classroom issues

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  Henry MacKay Walker:
  What image do CS1/CS2 present to our students? 18-19

Community college corner

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  Elizabeth K. Hawthorne:
  Visions of a future ... without forgetting the past. 19-20

Distance education

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  Judith Gal-Ezer:
  Reflections on distance learning. 21-22

IFIP vibes

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  A. Joe Turner:
  More on IFIP educational activities. 22

Out-of-the-box

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  Owen L. Astrachan:
  Head in the clouds. 23

Percolations

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  Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk:
  Resist and persist (productively). 23-24

Upsilon Pi Epsilon

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  Jeffrey L. Popyack:
  Society in transition. 25-26

Math CountS

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Pre-college math concepts vs. skills. 26-28

Colorful challenges

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  David Ginat:
  Alternating accumulation. 28-29

Nifty assignments

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  Nick Parlante:
  Cheating and the internet. 29-30

Reviewed papers

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  David Ginat:
  Elaborating heuristic reasoning and rigor with mathematical games. 32-36
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  Steven Minsker:
  The linear twin Towers of Hanoi problem. 37-40
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  Uvais Qidwai:
  A LAMP-LEGO experience of motivating minority students to study engineering. 41-44
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  Feng-Jen Yang:
  Eliciting an overlooked aspect of Bayesian reasoning. 45-48
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  Timothy T. Yuen:
  Novices' knowledge construction of difficult concepts in CS1. 49-53
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  Timothy J. Rolfe:
  An alternative dynamic programming solution for the 0/1 knapsack. 54-56
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  Yoram Eshet-Alkalai:
  Humans under bombardment: performing in a real-time world. 57-60
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  Arthur C. Fleck:
  Prolog as the first programming language. 61-64
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  Avi Cohen, Bruria Haberman:
  Computer science: a language of technology. 65-69
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  José de Oliveira Guimarães:
  Learning compiler construction by examples. 70-74
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  John R. Graham:
  Integrating parallel programming techniques into traditional computer science curricula. 75-78
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  Laurie A. Williams:
  Lessons learned from seven years of pair programming at North Carolina State University. 79-83
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  Yiu-chi Lai, Tak-wah Wong:
  Infusing problem solving skills into computer lessons. 84-86
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  Achuth Sankar S. Nair, Vinod S. S. Chandra:
  A MetaL for C and Pascal. 87-91
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  Tom Goulding, Rita DiTrolio:
  Complex game development by freshman computer science majors. 92-99
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  José Miguel Blanco Arbe, Ana Sánchez Ortega, Jesús Ibáñez Mártinez-Conde:
  Formal languages through web forms and regular expressions. 100-104
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  Abdul Sattar, Torben Lorenzen:
  Computer applications: a service course. 105-107
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  Javier Garzás, Mario Piattini:
  Improving the teaching of object-oriented design knowledge. 108-112
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  Greg Kawell:
  Concepts to real world implementation via service learning. 113-116
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  Torben Lorenzen, John Santore, David Glassman, Juozas Baltikauskas:
  No slacker on team programming projects. 117-118
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  Wanda J. Smith, France Bélanger, Tracy L. Lewis, Kristi Honaker:
  Training to persist in computing careers. 119-120
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  Theresa Beaubouef, Patrick McDowell:
  Ice hockey and tennis balls: playing at computer science research with robotics. 121-124
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  Carol Edmondson:
  Dear Dorothy: agonies from first-year programming. 125-126

Peripherals

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  Daniel T. Joyce, Bruce J. Klein, Renée McCauley:
  Report on improving SIGCSE/ITiCSE program creation process. 128-129
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  Justus J. Randolph:
  Findings from "A Methodological Review of the Computer Science Education Research: 2000--2005". 130
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  Justus J. Randolph:
  Planning and evaluating programs in computer science education. 131

Working group reports

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  Beth Simon, Sue Fitzgerald, Renée McCauley, Susan M. Haller, John Hamer, Brian Hanks, Michael T. Helmick, Jan Erik Moström, Judy Sheard, Lynda Thomas:
  Debugging assistance for novices: a video repository. 137-151
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  Ursula Fuller, Colin G. Johnson, Tuukka Ahoniemi, Diana Cukierman, Isidoro Hernán-Losada, Jana Jacková, Essi Lahtinen, Tracy L. Lewis, Donna McGee Thompson, Charles Riedesel, Errol Thompson:
  Developing a computer science-specific learning taxonomy. 152-170
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  Lillian N. Cassel, Gordon Davies, William Fone, Anneke Hacquebard, John Impagliazzo, Richard J. LeBlanc, Joyce Currie Little, Andrew D. McGettrick, Michela Pedrona:
  The computing ontology: application in education. 171-183
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  Anne Gates Applin, Hilary J. Holz, William J. Joel, Ifeyinwa Okoye, Katherine Deibel, Becky Grasser, Briony J. Oates, Gwendolyne Wood:
  A multi-perspective digital library to facilitate integrating teaching research methods across the computing curriculum. 184-203
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  Arnold Pears, Stephen Seidman, Lauri Malmi, Linda Mannila, Elizabeth S. Adams, Jens Bennedsen, Marie Devlin, James H. Paterson:
  A survey of literature on the teaching of introductory programming. 204-223
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  Ilaria Liccardi, Asma Ounnas, Reena Pau, Elizabeth Massey, Päivi Kinnunen, Sarah Lewthwaite, Marie-Anne Midy, Chandan Sarkar:
  The role of social networks in students' learning experiences. 224-237