SIGCSE 2009: Chattanooga, TN, USA

Keynote address

• Elliot B. Koffman:
  All I really need to know I learned in CS1. 1
  

Starting with scratch in CS 1

• Ursula Wolz, Henry H. Leitner, David J. Malan, John Maloney:
  Starting with scratch in CS 1. 2-3
  

Developing problem-solving skills

• Katrina E. Falkner, Edward Palmer:
  Developing authentic problem solving skills in introductory computing classes. 4-8
  
• Maureen Biggers, Tuba Yilmaz, Monica Sweat:
  Using collaborative, modified peer led team learning to improve student success and retention in intro cs. 9-13
  
• Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester:
  The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study. 14-18
  

Listening to students

• Brian Hanks, Laurie Murphy, Beth Simon, Renée McCauley, Carol Zander:
  CS1 students speak: advice for students by students. 19-23
  
• Brian Hanks, Matt Brandt:
  Successful and unsuccessful problem solving approaches of novice programmers. 24-28
  
• Jill E. Courte, Cathy Bishop-Clark:
  Do students differentiate between computing disciplines? 29-33
  

Networking and mobile apps

• Damon Tyman, Nirupama Bulusu, Jens Mache:
  An activity-based sensor networks course for undergraduates with sun spot devices. 34-38
  
• Muthucumaru Maheswaran, Alexis Malozemoff, Daniel Ng, Sheng Liao, Song Gu, Balasubramaneyam Maniymaran, Julie Raymond, Reehan Shaikh, Yuanyuan Gao:
  GINI: a user-level toolkit for creating micro internets for teaching & learning computer networking. 39-43
  
• Stan Kurkovsky:
  Engaging students through mobile game development. 44-48
  

Breadth n-th

• Don Blaheta:
  CS262: a breadth-second survey of informatic CS. 49-53
  
• William W. White, Jerry B. Weinberg:
  Breadth-last technical electives: integrating the CS core via computer games and mobile robotics. 54-58
  
• Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Stephen D. Scott, Stephen Ramsay, Etsuko Moriyama, George Meyer, Brian Moore, William G. Thomas, Duane F. Shell:
  Renaissance computing: an initiative for promoting student participation in computing. 59-63
  

Invited session: SIGCSE at 40

• Lillian N. Cassel, Richard H. Austing, Elliott Koffman:
  SIGCSE: from the beginnings to a bright future. 64
  

Special session

• Daniel D. Garcia, Robb Cutler, Zachary Dodds, Eric Roberts, Alison Young:
  Rediscovering the passion, beauty, joy, and awe: making computing fun again, continued. 65-66
  

Special session

• Stephen Cooper, Joan Peckham, Harriet G. Taylor:
  Exploring NSF funding opportunities in EHR and CISE. 67-68
  

Panel session

• Joseph E. Urban, Jesse M. Heines, Edward A. Fox, Harriet G. Taylor:
  Panel on revitalized undergraduate computing education. 69-70
  

Quotidian pedagogy

• Janet Davis:
  Experiences with just-in-time teaching in systems and design courses. 71-75
  
• Chris Bennett, Timothy Urness:
  Using daily student presentations to address attitudes and communication skills in CS1. 76-80
  
• Edward F. Gehringer, Carolyn S. Miller:
  Student-generated active-learning exercises. 81-85
  

Recruitment

• Amy Bruckman, Maureen Biggers, Barbara Ericson, Tom McKlin, Jill P. Dimond, Betsy James DiSalvo, Mike Hewner, Lijun Ni, Sarita Yardi:
  "Georgia computes!": improving the computing education pipeline. 86-90
  
• Patricia Morreale, Stan Kurkovsky, George Chang:
  Methodology for successful undergraduate recruiting in computer science at comprehensive public universities. 91-95
  
• Brad Richards:
  Representation of women in CS: how do we measure a program's success? 96-100
  

Distributed computing for the classroom

• Jeannie R. Albrecht:
  Bringing big systems to small schools: distributed systems for undergraduates. 101-105
  
• Richard A. Brown:
  Hadoop at home: large-scale computing at a small college. 106-110
  
• Justin Cappos, Ivan Beschastnikh, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Tom Anderson:
  Seattle: a platform for educational cloud computing. 111-115
  

CS1/2 transitions

• Richard J. Enbody, William F. Punch, Mark McCullen:
  Python CS1 as preparation for C++ CS2. 116-120
  
• Marty Stepp, Jessica Miller, Victoria Kirst:
  A "CS 1.5" introduction to web programming. 121-125
  
• Judith Gal-Ezer, Tamar Vilner, Ela Zur:
  Has the paradigm shift in CS1 a harmful effect on data structures courses: a case study. 126-130
  

Invited session: SIGCSE at 40

• Curt M. White:
  An historical look at the SIGCSE conference. 131
  

Special session

• Mark W. Bailey, Kim B. Bruce, Kathleen Fisher, Robert Harper, Stuart Reges:
  Report of the 2008 SIGPLAN programming languages curriculum workshop: preliminary report. 132-133
  

Panel session

• Gregory W. Hislop, Heidi J. C. Ellis, Allen B. Tucker, Scott Dexter:
  Using open source software to engage students in computer science education. 134-135
  

Panel session

• Daniel Ernst, Barry Wittman, Brian Harvey, Tom Murphy, Michael Wrinn:
  Preparing students for ubiquitous parallelism. 136-137
  

Test-driven pedagogical approaches

• Viera K. Proulx:
  Test-driven design for introductory OO programming. 138-142
  
• Joel Adams:
  Test-driven data structures: revitalizing CS2. 143-147
  
• Chetan Desai, David S. Janzen, John Clements:
  Implications of integrating test-driven development into CS1/CS2 curricula. 148-152
  

Retention

• Lecia J. Barker, Charlie McDowell, Kimberly Kalahar:
  Exploring factors that influence computer science introductory course students to persist in the major. 153-157
  
• Joanne McGrath Cohoon, Zhen Wu, Jie Chao:
  Sexism: toxic to women's persistence in CSE doctoral programs. 158-162
  
• Susan Horwitz, Susan H. Rodger, Maureen Biggers, David Binkley, C. Kolin Frantz, Dawn Gundermann, Susanne E. Hambrusch, Steven Huss-Lederman, Ethan V. Munson, Barbara G. Ryder, Monica Sweat:
  Using peer-led team learning to increase participation and success of under-represented groups in introductory computer science. 163-167
  

Capturing and analyzing student artifacts

• Roy P. Pargas, Samuel P. Bryfczynski:
  Using ink to expose students' thought processes in CS2/CS7. 168-172
  
• Anthony Allevato, Stephen H. Edwards, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones:
  Dereferee: exploring pointer mismanagement in student code. 173-177
  
• Christian Murphy, Gail E. Kaiser, Kristin Loveland, Sahar Hasan:
  Retina: helping students and instructors based on observed programming activities. 178-182
  

Computational thinking across disciplines

• Susanne E. Hambrusch, Christoph Hoffmann, John T. Korb, Mark Haugan, Antony L. Hosking:
  A multidisciplinary approach towards computational thinking for science majors. 183-187
  
• Hong Qin:
  Teaching computational thinking through bioinformatics to biology students. 188-191
  
• Owen L. Astrachan:
  Pander to ponder. 192-196
  

Invited session: SIGCSE at 40

• Nell B. Dale, Andrew D. McGettrick, John Impagliazzo, Robert M. Aiken, Elliot B. Koffman, Jim Leisy:
  A historical look at curricula and materials. 197-198
  

Panel session

• Ursula Wolz, Tiffany Barnes, Jessica D. Bayliss, Jamie Cromack:
  Girls do like playing and creating games. 199-200
  

Panel session

• Jon Beck, Vicki L. Almstrum, Heidi J. C. Ellis, Massood Towhidnejad:
  Best practices in software engineering project class management. 201-202
  

Keynote address

• Craig J. Mundie:
  Rethinking computing. 203
  

Panel session

• Mark Lewis, Scott T. Leutenegger, Michael Panitz, Kelvin Sung, Scott A. Wallace:
  Introductory programming courses and computer games. 204-205
  

Graphical frameworks for CS1

• Michael H. Goldwasser, David Letscher:
  A graphics package for the first day and beyond. 206-210
  
• Ben Stephenson, Craig Taube-Schock:
  QuickDraw: bringing graphics into first year. 211-215
  
• Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Paul Denny:
  A simple framework for interactive games in CS1. 216-220
  

Engaging K-12

• Michelle Craig, Diane Horton:
  Gr8 designs for Gr8 girls: a middle-school program and its evaluation. 221-225
  
• Mary Beth Rosson, Anastassia Ioujanina, Timothy Paone, Gretel Sheasley, Hansa Sinha, Craig H. Ganoe, John M. Carroll, Jan Mahar:
  A scaffolded introduction to dynamic website development for female high school students. 226-230
  
• Tomohiro Nishida, Susumu Kanemune, Yukio Idosaka, Mitaro Namiki, Tim Bell, Yasushi Kuno:
  A CS unplugged design pattern. 231-235
  

Secure systems

• Joel Brynielsson:
  An information assurance curriculum for commanding officers using hands-on experiments. 236-240
  
• Li Yang:
  Teaching database security and auditing. 241-245
  
• Joel Wein, Kirill Kourtchikov, Yan Cheng, Ron Gutierez, Roman Khmelichek, Matthew Topol, Chris Sherman:
  Virtualized games for teaching about distributed systems. 246-250
  

Shaking up our worldview

• Kirby McMaster, Brian Rague, Steven M. Hadfield:
  Two mathematical gestalts for computer theory. 251-255
  
• Duane Buck, David J. Stucki:
  The hidden injuries of overloading 'ADT'. 256-259
  
• James J. Lu, George H. L. Fletcher:
  Thinking about computational thinking. 260-264
  

Special session

• Jonas Boustedt, Robert McCartney, Katherine Deibel, Jim Huggins, Beth Simon, Suzanne Westbrook, The Mystery Presenter:
  It seemed like a good idea at the time. 265-266
  

Special session

• Andrew D. McGettrick, Renée McCauley, Richard J. LeBlanc, Heikki Topi:
  Report on the ACM/IEEE-CS undergraduate curricula recommendations. 267-268
  

Special session

• Judith Gal-Ezer, Orit Hazzan, Noa Ragonis:
  Preparation of high school computer science teachers: the Israeli perspective. 269-270
  

Graphical introduction to programming in K-12

• Susan H. Rodger, Jenna Hayes, Gaetjens Lezin, Henry Qin, Deborah Nelson, Ruth Tucker, Mercedes Lopez, Stephen Cooper, Wanda Dann, Don Slater:
  Engaging middle school teachers and students with alice in a diverse set of subjects. 271-275
  
• Joey C. Y. Cheung, Grace Ngai, Stephen C. F. Chan, Winnie W. Y. Lau:
  Filling the gap in programming instruction: a text-enhanced graphical programming environment for junior high students. 276-280
  
• Gary Kacmarcik, Sylvie Giral Kacmarcik:
  Introducing computer programming via gameboy advance homebrew. 281-285
  

Mental hygiene -- analysis and promotion of good CS work habits

• Vincent A. Cicirello:
  On the role and effectiveness of pop quizzes in CS1. 286-290
  
• Christopher D. Hundhausen, Anukrati Agrawal, Dana Fairbrother, Michael Trevisan:
  Integrating pedagogical code reviews into a CS 1 course: an empirical study. 291-295
  
• James B. Fenwick Jr., Cindy Norris, E. Frank Barry, Josh Rountree, Cole J. Spicer, Scott D. Cheek:
  Another look at the behaviors of novice programmers. 296-300
  

Taking software engineering out of the classroom

• Adrian Rusu, Amalia I. Rusu, Rebecca Docimo, Confesor Santiago, Mike Paglione:
  Academia-academia-industry collaborations on software engineering projects using local-remote teams. 301-305
  
• Mohammad H. N. Tabrizi, Carol B. Collins, Vipul Kalamkar:
  An international collaboration in software engineering. 306-310
  
• Ralph Morelli, Trishan R. de Lanerolle:
  Foss 101: engaging introductory students in the open source movement. 311-315
  

Games 2 teach

• Bo Brinkman:
  The heart of a whistle-blower: a corporate decision-making game for computer ethics classes. 316-320
  
• Michael Eagle, Tiffany Barnes:
  Experimental evaluation of an educational game for improved learning in introductory computing. 321-325
  
• Emily Oh Navarro, André van der Hoek:
  Multi-site evaluation of SimSE. 326-330
  

Special session

• Paul T. Tymann, Laurie White:
  The future of the AP CS program. 331-332
  

Special session

• Florence Appel, Katherine Deibel, C. Dianne Martin, Joseph D. Oldham, Tarsem S. Purewal Jr., Carol Spradling:
  From the man on the moon to 2001 and beyond: the evolving social and ethical impact of computers a session to commemorate SIGCSE' 40 anniversary. 333-334
  

Panel session

• Richard M. Salter, Robert D. Cupper, Stuart Hirshfield, Alexa M. Sharp:
  New models for the CS1 course: a fifteen year retrospective. 335-336
  

Games how-to

• Jessica D. Bayliss:
  Using games in introductory courses: tips from the trenches. 337-341
  
• Briana B. Morrison, Jon A. Preston:
  Engagement: gaming throughout the curriculum. 342-346
  
• Monica McGill:
  Weighted game developer qualifications for consideration in curriculum development. 347-351
  

Departmental issues

• Donald B. Sanderson:
  Revising an assessment plan to conform to the new ABET-CAC guidelines. 352-356
  
• Charles Riedesel, Eric D. Manley, Susan Poser, Jitender S. Deogun:
  A model academic ethics and integrity policy for computer science departments. 357-361
  
• Mujtaba Talebi, Thomas Way:
  Methods, metrics and motivation for a green computer science program. 362-366
  

Reflecting on programming

• Michael R. Wick:
  Using programming to help students understand the value of diversity. 367-371
  
• Naveed Arshad:
  Teaching programming and problem solving to CS2 students using think-alouds. 372-376
  
• Stuart A. Hansen:
  Analyzing programming projects. 377-381
  

Models for cross-course fertilization of ideas

• Susan Reiser, Rebecca F. Bruce:
  Fabrication: a tangible link between computer science and creativity. 382-386
  
• Robin Y. Flatland, James R. Matthews:
  Using modes of inquiry and engaging problems to link computer science and mathematics. 387-391
  
• Christopher Brown, Robert Pastel:
  Combining distinct graduate and undergraduate HCI courses: an experiential and interactive approach. 392-396
  

Special session

• Owen L. Astrachan, Henry MacKay Walker, Chris Stephenson, Lien Diaz, Janice E. Cuny:
  Advanced placement computer science: the future of tracking the first year of instruction. 397-398
  

Panel session

• Lecia Jane Barker, Elizabeth S. Adams, Amardeep Kahlon, Andrea Lawrence, Alison Young:
  Trends and discoveries of the computing educators oral history project. 399-400
  

Special session

• Inna Pivkina, Desh Ranjan, Jerry Lodder:
  Historical sources as a teaching tool. 401-402
  

Tools for engagement

• Susan H. Rodger, Eric Wiebe, Kyung Min Lee, Chris Morgan, Kareem Omar, Jonathan Su:
  Increasing engagement in automata theory with JFLAP. 403-407
  
• Anne Philpott, Tony Clear, Jacqueline L. Whalley:
  Understanding student performance on an algorithm simulation task: implications for guided learning. 408-412
  
• Andrew Brownfield, Cindy Norris:
  LC3uArch: a graphical simulator of the LC-3 microarchitecture. 413-417
  
• Richard M. Salter, John L. Donaldson:
  Abstraction and extensibility in digital logic simulation software. 418-422
  

Robots

• Glenn V. Nickens, Ethan J. Tira-Thompson, Thorna Humphries, David S. Touretzky:
  An inexpensive hand-eye system for undergraduate robotics instruction. 423-427
  
• Tom Lauwers, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner:
  CSbots: design and deployment of a robot designed for the CS1 classroom. 428-432
  
• Jay Summet, Deepak Kumar, Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel Walker, Lijun Ni, Douglas S. Blank, Tucker R. Balch:
  Personalizing CS1 with robots. 433-437
  
• William Isaac McWhorter, Brian C. O'Connor:
  Do LEGO® Mindstorms® motivate students in CS1? 438-442
  

Systems

• Shimon Schocken, Noam Nisan, Michal Armoni:
  A synthesis course in hardware architecture, compilers, and software engineering. 443-447
  
• Michael D. Black:
  Build an operating system from scratch: a project for an introductory operating systems course. 448-452
  
• Ben Pfaff, Anthony Romano, Godmar Back:
  The pintos instructional operating system kernel. 453-457
  
• Geoffrey M. Draper, Robert R. Kessler, Richard F. Riesenfeld:
  A history of computing course with a technical focus. 458-462
  

Interdisciplinary multimedia

• Mark Christensen van Langeveld, Robert Kessler:
  Two in the middle: digital character production and machinima courses. 463-467
  
• Daniela Stan Raicu, Jacob D. Furst:
  Enhancing undergraduate education: a REU model for interdisciplinary research. 468-472
  
• Jennifer Burg, Jason Romney:
  Linking computer science, art, and practice through digital sound. 473-477
  
• Jesse M. Heines, Gena R. Greher, Sarah Kuhn:
  Music performamatics: interdisciplinary interaction. 478-482
  

Special session

• Nick Parlante, Thomas P. Murtagh, Mehran Sahami, Owen L. Astrachan, David Reed, Christopher A. Stone, Brent Heeringa, Karen L. Reid:
  Nifty assignments. 483-484
  

Special session

• Dave A. Berque:
  A tutorial on stroke-based interfaces: unistroke recognition algorithms appropriate for compelling projects in introductory courses. 485-486
  

Special session

• Gordon Davies, Lillian N. Cassel, Arthur B. Pyster, Michael E. Caspersen, Heikki Topi:
  Acm education board and masters level programs. 487-488
  

Data- and code-space animation

• Michael G. Boland, Curtis C. Cliburn:
  Introducing PyLighter: dynamic code highlighter. 489-493
  
• David Scot Taylor, Andrei F. Lurie, Cay S. Horstmenn, Menko B. Johnson, Sean K. Sharma, Edward C. Yin:
  Predictive vs. passive animation learning tools. 494-498
  
• Amruth N. Kumar:
  Data space animation for learning the semantics of C++ pointers. 499-503
  

Summer outreach programs

• Winnie W. Y. Lau, Grace Ngai, Stephen C. F. Chan, Joey C. Y. Cheung:
  Learning programming through fashion and design: a pilot summer course in wearable computing for middle school students. 504-508
  
• Inna Pivkina, Enrico Pontelli, Rachel Jensen, Jessica Haebe:
  Young women in computing: lessons learned from an educational & outreach program. 509-513
  
• Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Robert I. Roth:
  The summer academy for advancing deaf and hard of hearing in computing. 514-518
  

Software design

• Alex Baker, André van der Hoek:
  An experience report on the design and delivery of two new software design courses. 519-523
  
• Dana P. Leonard, Jason O. Hallstrom, Murali Sitaraman:
  Injecting rapid feedback and collaborative reasoning in teaching specifications. 524-528
  
• Andrew Meneely, Laurie Williams:
  On preparing students for distributed software development with a synchronous, collaborative development platform. 529-533
  

Curriculum innovation

• Robert Kessler, Mark Christensen van Langeveld, Roger Altizer:
  Entertainment arts and engineering(or how to fast track a new interdisciplinary program). 539-543
  
• Chi-Cheng Lin, Mingrui Zhang, Barbara Beck, Gayle Olsen:
  Embedding computer science concepts in K-12 science curricula. 539-543
  
• Lijun Ni:
  What makes CS teachers change?: factors influencing CS teachers' adoption of curriculum innovations. 544-548
  

Panel session

• Owen L. Astrachan, Susanne E. Hambrusch, Joan Peckham, Amber Settle:
  The present and future of computational thinking. 549-550
  

Whither scheme? 21st century approaches to scheme in CS1

• Richard Brown, Janet Davis, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Brian Harvey:
  Whither scheme?: 21^st century approaches to scheme in CS1. 551-552
  

Keynote address

• Gregory D. Abowd:
  Make IT matter: how computing can make a difference. 553