This tutorial will present how instructors can incorporate LEGO robots into their AI course with minimal time, effort, and resource commitment. The tutorial will: 1) cover the principles behind using robots for knowledge-based, open-laboratory projects; ...

The goal is to supply the participant with the tools to teach a course or unit about data mining and knowledge discovery. A basic understanding of the benefits and limitations of data mining as a problem-solving strategy will be offered. Several data ...

In this paper, we describe a method for managing the complexity in CS2.

In this paper, we emphasize that a separation between the definition and the implementations of a data structure is not obvious. Both teachers and textbooks authors must be aware of this fact and prepare the learning material accordingly. We find that ...

We describe an experience of cooperative learning for teaching the UNIX operating system in first year of Computer Engineering that helps the students to work with constancy, motivates them to attend the laboratory sessions, stay with the subject, and ...

This paper proposes the use of Flash movies when introducing students to the use of a complex Integrated Development Environment in the context of a GUI programming course.

We present our use of the Bochs PC emulator in a series of pratical assignments that, in a basic computer architecture course, introduce polling and interrupt-based input-output programming techniques.

This paper describes a on-going empirical study, inspired by phenomenography, aiming at understanding how students from the humanities learn the concepts of objects and object-orientation during a programming course.