computer courses
Tech skills: UK Plc told to get its hands dirty and help students
News More firms should help design and pay for courses for the benefit of the current and future workforce, and more firms should offer students practical work experience. IT skills are an issue of perennial concern for the... [21 Sep 2009]
CIO finishing school set to open doors
News The centre will provide short courses and ultimately a Masters-level qualification for mid-career IT professionals looking to develop themselves and acquire the skills to move up the IT ladder. Short... [23 Jun 2009]
Training Secrets From the 'Best Bank'
White Paper St.George's implementation of the SumTotal Learning Management System (LMS) now hosts 550 different courses ranging from technical tutorials in the bank's group wise email environment to Computer Based... [05 Jun 2009]
Senior Lecturer at a Major University in Boston, MA Enhances Teaching With SmartDraw
White Paper Ed Trachtenberg is a senior lecturer at a major university in Boston, MA, where he's been teaching computer related courses for the last 25 years. Ed was looking for an easy way for both the students and... [14 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.01.09
Round-Up Most university courses contain the usual units on networking, software engineering and user interface design (and perhaps recycling). Then again, computer science students get to graduate from... [16 Jan 2009]
Integrating BlackBerry Wireless Devices Into Computer Programming and Literacy Courses
White Paper This paper describes the experience in integrating the RIM's BlackBerry handheld wireless device into programming and literacy courses at the University of Guelph and the University of Guelph-Humber. The... [09 Jan 2009]
Teaching Experiments and Programming for Machine Learning
White Paper In this paper it is claimed that, in the same way it is important that students get a strong theoretical background, they also need strong practical courses in order to be able to design realistic prototypes validating... [09 Jan 2009]
Visualizable Pseudo Programming Language
White Paper Selecting a right programming language for introductory CS courses is not an easy task. The pressure to use a commercially successful language can easily be the most significant factor in choosing the language. [09 Jan 2009]
Work in Progress - Motivating Students for Software Engineering
White Paper In basic Computer Science courses, students learn to program small programs with pre-defined programming structures, by themselves. Since software engineering courses teach students to... [03 Dec 2008]
Evaluating a Software Engineering Project Course Model Based on Studio Presentations
White Paper This paper presents a model for a software engineering project course that has proven successful as the capstone of the required sequence of software courses in the computer science major. It differs... [03 Dec 2008]
Incorporating Software Engineering Principles Into Real Time Engineering Courses
White Paper An already crowded Computer Engineering program curriculum cannot accommodate each of these courses separately. One common industrially pertinent area between Electrical Engineering and... [03 Dec 2008]
Using a Fixed-Point Digital Signal Processor as a PID Controller
White Paper In this paper undergraduate controls courses have traditionally focused on mathematical analysis, including transfer functions, block diagram manipulation, root locus, frequency response (Bode plots), etc. [03 Dec 2008]
Assessing the Process Maturity Utilized in Software Engineering Team Project Courses
White Paper As part of their curriculum, many computer science departments offer an introductory software engineering course. This course normally provides an introduction to software engineering topics in conjunction with a... [03 Dec 2008]
Teaching a Service Course in Software Engineering
White Paper The development of stand-alone software engineering curricula has spawned the need for a reevaluation of the survey courses designed to introduce software engineering to the non-software engineer... [30 Nov 2008]
Introduction of Software Engineering to Freshman: Challenges and Rewards
White Paper It is believed that these concepts can be taught in later courses. It is likely that the first programming course that a Software Engineering (SE) or a Computer Science (CS) freshman student takes at a... [30 Nov 2008]