10 Tips for Implementing Executable Exams
The focus is on executable exams for an Introduction to Computer Science course.
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20 Years of ‘Software Engineering for Innovative Internet Applications’
Addressing the question: Why is software engineering part of the undergraduate computer science curriculum?
Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Key Value
Of all non-relationals, the key-value store is by far the most popular due to its extreme simplicity.
Inclusive Integration of Computing in School Districts: Two Essential Tradeoffs
When integrating computer science and computational thinking in a school district through inclusive learning pathways, school district leaders face challenging tradeoffs regarding ambition and specificity.
I take a peek at the history of computing to see if pioneering early developments were the results of team effort.
Why Did We Ever Think the First Programming Language Didn’t Matter?
Maybe the first programming language didn't really matter, because students learning programming were different.
The Evolution of Computing Power in Switzerland
Milestones in the history of computing from the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Lugano.
A MERge Analysis of an Organizational Change: The Case of Internalization at Home
How the Technion assimilated its international activities into its other units’ activities and, at the same time, reduced operational costs related to its international activities.
New Areas for Application of Self-Organizing Routing
To organize the productive work of multiprocessor chips, it is necessary to establish an efficient distribution of computational processes between computational cores.
The Art Of Speedy Systems Conversions
System conversions represent a type of development in which project scope includes all the effort of an initial software release, plus an entirely new set of complexities.
Soresini: A Very Rare Book on the History of Computing
The work is an extremely instructive, rich history of calculating technology. It also includes the analog world and automata, and is written in Italian.
Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Document
Document databases are particularly useful in app development.
New Social-Economic Trends in Computer Science Education
Considering new social-economic trends in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Data Science education.
Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Column
The elements of one of the most used and popular data designs around.
Babbage wanted to control his analytical engine, regarded as the ancestor of the modern-day computer, with punched cards.
An Open Call to Establish an Interdisciplinary Data Science Education Journal
In this blog, we describe our vision for a journal that would focus on data science education from the interdisciplinarity perceptive.
Computing Education Is Not the Same as Engineering Education
Learning Engineering is not always about Becoming an Engineer. Computing Education outside of Engineering Education is bigger than the part inside.
Shape the Future of Computing
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