2007 CCSC: Central Plains Conference
April 13 - 14, 2007
Drury University
Springfield, Missouri
In Association with ACM SIGCSE

National Sponsors:
  • Addison-Wesley Computing
  • O'Reilly
  • Thomson Course Technology
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8:00 -
   8:30
Pre-Conference Registration
Lab A, 2nd Floor Springfield Hall
8:30 -
   11:30
ACM SIGCSE Pre-Conference Workshop

Introducing Visual Studio Team System Into the Curriculum
Joe Hummel
Lake Forest College
(More information ...)


MEETING ROOM: Lab A, 2nd Floor Springfield Hall
10:00 -
   5:00
Conference Registration
Room 117 Pearsons Hall
1:00 -
   2:00
Opening Session

Conference Welcome
Scott Sigman - Conference Chair

Welcome to Drury University
Charles Taylor - Dean of the College

Keynote Address
Business Ethics in the 21 Century
Doug Roller
CEO and Co-founder
Duck Creek Technologies
(More information ...)


MEETING ROOM: Lay Auditorium, Lay Hall
2:10 -
   3:10
Session Chair
Jeff Kimball - Southwest Baptist University

Using An Automated Reasoning Program As A CS Application In Discrete Mathematics

     Daniel E. Nohl, Benedictine University


  MEETING ROOM: Room 22 Pearsons Hall
Session Chair
Ron MCleary - Avila University

Level Of Agreement Between Instructor And Student Peer-Evaluations Of Website Design Characteristics
 
     Edward  Mirielli, Westminster College

Implementation Of An Interactive Web Application Using FOSS, A Participant-Oriented Evaluation Study

     Cecil Schmidt, Justin Higgins,
     and Lance Gliser, Washburn University


  MEETING ROOM: Room 23 Pearsons Hall
Panel:  How Do We Manage Student Projects

     Dean Sanders - Northwest Missouri State
     Khaled Alshare - Emporia State University
     Scott Sigman - Drury University
     Eddie Burris - University of Missouri, KC


  MEETING ROOM: Room 115 Pearsons Hall
3:15 -
   3:45
Break - Networking - Vendors
Room 116, Pearsons Hall
3:50 -
   4:50
Session Chair
Dan Neumann - Southwest Baptist University

A Computer Forensics Minor Curriculum Proposal

    William Figg, Dakota State &
    Zehai Zhou, University of Houston

A Multidisciplinary Approach To Graduate Education In Informatics – A Proposal In Process

    Jody K. Smith & John P. Buerck,
    St. Louis University


MEETING ROOM: Room 22 Pearsons Hall
Tutorial: Infusing Diversity Topics Throughout The Computer Science Curriculum

     Goran Trajkovski, Towson University


MEETING ROOM: Room 23 Pearsons Hall
Panel:  Game Programming Concepts Can Be Taught at CP-CCSC Schools

    Rick Barker - Washburn University
   Cecil Schmidt - Washburn University
   Carol Browning - Drury University
   Ernest Ferguson - Northwest Missouri State


MEETING ROOM: Room 115 Pearsons Hall
4:55 -
  5:10
Break - Networking - Vendors
Room 116, Pearsons Hall
5:15 -
   6:15
Session Chair
David Pope - Ozarks Technical College

Using BlueJ And Blackjack To Teach Object-Oriented Design Concepts In CS1

     Svetlana Kouznetsova, Sam Houston State

A Comprehensive Capstone Project In Computer Science I: Getting The (Instant) Message

    Tim DeClue, Southwest Baptist University


MEETING ROOM: Room 22 Pearsons Hall
Tutorial: Teaching an Object-Oriented CS1 Course in Python

    Michael H. Goldwasser & David Letscher,
    St. Louis University


MEETING ROOM: Room 23 Pearsons Hall
 
6:30 -
  8:30
Banquet
Ballroom, Findlay Student Center
8:00 -
   10:00
Saturday Registration
Room 117 Pearsons Hall
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8:00 -
  8:30
Continental Breakfast
Courtesy of EMC
Room 116, Pearsons Hall
8:30 -
   9:30
Session Chair
Eric Shade - Missouri State University

Constructing a Solid Real-Time Operating Systems Course in Computer Science Major

     Kuodi Jian, Metropolitan State University

Use of a Simulator and an Assembler in Teaching Input-Output Processing and Interrupt Handling

    Soe Than, VA Military Institute


MEETING ROOM: Room 22 Pearsons Hall
Session Chair
Bob Neufeld - McPherson College

Nifty Assignments

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The Arrow Program: A Software Engineering Case Study for CS1, Iyad A. Ajwa, Ashland Univ. Ohio

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Division By Integers Using Multiplication, Chuck Pheatt, Emporia State

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Java Programming Assignment Using Client/Server Interaction, Thomas Mertz, Kansas State

MEETING ROOM: Room 23 Pearsons Hall
Vendor Session

Information Management Infrastructures - Managing Data Growth in the Information Age

    Ed VanSickles

(Abstract ...)


MEETING ROOM: Room 115 Pearsons Hall
9:35 -
  9:55
Break - Networking - Vendors - Student Poster Sessions
Room 116, Pearsons Hall
10:00 -
  11:00
Session Chair
Linda Webster - Westminster College

Developing And Learning Web Services With Open Source Software: An Experience Report
 
    Matthew W. Reed, Benjamin A. Balogh,
    David C. Miller, and Chia-Chu Chiang,
    Arkansas Little Rock

Introducing SOA And Workflow Modeling To Non-Technical Students

    Bruce J. Neubauer, Univ. of South Florida


MEETING ROOM: Room 22 Pearsons Hall
Tutorial: An Assembly Language I.D.E. To Engage Students Of All Levels

    Pete Sanderson, Otterbein College &
    Ken Vollmar, Missouri State


MEETING ROOM: Olin Library Computer Lab
Student Web Site
Contest
Sponsored by VML

MEETING ROOM: Room 115 Pearsons Hall @7:40


Start time for Contest is 8:30 A.M
11:05 -
  11:25
Break - Networking - Vendors - Student Poster Sessions
Room 116, Pearsons Hall
11:30 -
  12:30
Session Chair
Anita Liu - Missouri State University

A Data Mining Course For Computer Science And Non Computer Science Students

    Jamil Saquer, Missouri State

Data Mining in Sports: Predicting Cy Young Award Winners

    Lloyd Smith, Bret Lipscomb, &
    Adam Simkins, Missouri State


MEETING ROOM: Room 22 Pearsons Hall
Tutorial:  Hands-On Robotic Programming

    Nick Kreeger & Wen-Jung Hsin,
    Park University


MEETING ROOM: Room 115 Pearsons Hall
12:45 -
  1:45
Luncheon & Business Meeting
Ballroom, Findlay Student Center
2:00 -
  6:00
Student Programming Contest
Sponsored by Cerner Corporation
Room 115 Pearsons Hall