It is a fundamental Human-Computer Interaction problem to design a tangible programming environment for use by multiple persons that can also be individualised. This problem has its origin in the phenomenon that the meaning ...

In this extended abstract, we present a brief description of the tutorial. The primary reference material, a book and some software (1] , is available for ftp from the Eindhoven University of Technology. In this tutorial, ...

To many persons, computer-assisted instruction (CAI) connotes automated programmed instruction (PI). This exemplifies the authorcontrolled mode of CAI, in which PI, suitably generalized, is mediated by the computer. This ...

We describe the use of a toolkit designed to support the Compiler Construction course in the University of Botswana. The toolkit is based upon the principles of simplicity, modularity and flexibility. Its educational ...

Research has shown that traditional teaching methods such as lecturing are not always as effective as the teacher or lecturer might like them to be. Frederick [3, p45] stated: 'Nearly all learning theorists.faculty development ...

The purpose of this paper is to outline an approach for the development of the Tape Machines model in the Theory of Computation which is bound more closely to the real computer world. The approach is based on a developed ...

In today's highly competitive global economy, well-structured information resources, representing enterprise-wide information, are essential to the survival of an organization. The user needs an integrated view of the ...

This article focuses on test automation for safety-critical reactive systems. In the first part of the paper we introduce a methodology for specification, design and verification of fault-tolerant systems allowing to ...

A number of methods for feature reduction and feature selection in text classification and information retrieval systems are compared. These include feature sets that are constructed by Latent Semantic Indexing, 'local ...