| Consortium for Computing Sciences
in Colleges 14th Annual Central Plains Conference University of Missouri--Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Friday, April 4th 2008 | |||
| 8:00 a.m - 8:30 a.m | PRE-CONFERENCE REGISTRATION 5th Floor Atrium, Flarsheim Hall |
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| 9:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m | ACM SIGCSE PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 460 Flarsheim Hall Learning to Program With Alice Dr. Stephen Cooper Associate Professor and Director, Center for Visualization Saint Joseph's University |
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| 12:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | LUNCH (On Your Own) University Center |
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| 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
5th Floor Atrium, Flarsheim Hall |
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| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | KEYNOTE SPEAKER - 301 Royall Hall
WELCOME Dr. Walt Rychlewski Interim Dean, School of Computing and Engineering Learning the Craft of Software Bob Martin President Object Mentor,Inc. |
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| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | BREAK | ||
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| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS 261 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Goran Trajkovski, South University Computer Literacy in International Service Learning at Park University Wen-Jung Hsin & Olga Ganzen Park University Reversing the Course: A New Sequence for Teaching Microsoft Office Jeffrey Kimball Southwest Baptist University |
PAPER PRESENTATIONS 304 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Deborah Becker, Missouri Western State University Taming the Diversity of Information Assurance & Security J. Paul Myers, Jr., Trinity University Sandra Riela, IAS Consultant A Networking Lab Facility on the Cheap: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities |
TUTORIAL PRESENTATION 560L Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Mark Hieber, University of Missouri--Kansas City Video Game Development using XNA Game Studio Express and C# Express Ernest Ferguson, Brandon Heck and Brandon Rockhold Northwest Missouri State University |
| 3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | BREAK | ||
| 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS 261 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Keith Tookey, Eureka College Problem-Based Assessment of the Computer Science Major Scott Sigman & Carol Browning Drury University A Discovery-based Capstone Experience John Trono Saint Michael's College |
PAPER PRESENTATIONS 304 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Patrick Kopp, Avila University What Makes a "Good" Game Programming Assignment? Daniel Cliburn University of the Pacific Susan Miller Kent State University Design of a Pedagogical Assembly Language and Classroom Experiences Robert Silverman & Melanie Martin California State University Stanislaus |
TUTORIAL PRESENTATION 460 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Barbara Kushan, Park University Alice Frenzy : An Interactive Group Activity Judy Mullins University of Missouri--Kansas City Angela Klein, William Jewell College |
| 4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | BREAK | ||
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS 261 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Bob Neufeld, McPherson College Teaching Recursion Using Recursion Graphs Wen-Jung Hsin Park University Solving N-Queens Using a Genetic Algorithm Cecil Schmidt & Richard Eastridge Washburn University |
VENDOR SESSION 5th Floor Atrium, Flarsheim Hall |
"NIFTY" COURSE ASSIGNMENTS 304 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Mahmoud Yusef, University of Central Missouri The Soft Side of Software Engineering Chuck Pheatt Emporia State University Instant Messaging as a Software Design Project A Project Approach for Teaching Software Architecture and Web Services in a Software Engineering Course |
| 6:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. | BREAK | ||
| 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. | DINNER Pierson Auditorium, University Center |
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| 7:30 p.m. | DINNER SPEAKER Pierson Auditorium Creating a CS Minor in Gaming, Simulation and Digital Animation at the Undergraduate Level Kent Pickett Missouri Western State University and Mitre Corp. |
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| Saturday, April 5th 2008 | |||
| 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | STUDENT WEB CONTEST 560L Flarsheim |
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| 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 557 Flarsheim |
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| 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS 261 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Bob Matthews, Truman State University iConnect: An Architecture That Incorporates Web Services to Support Distributed Data Rad Alrifai Northeastern State University Introducing USB Technology into the Undergraduate CS Curriculum Chuck Pheatt Emporia State University |
LIGHTNING TALKS
304 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Gary Ury |
TUTORIAL PRESENTATION 363 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Hui Liu, Missouri State University Organizing and Delivering Real Projects for Real Clients Courses (RPRCCs) David Klappholz Stevens Institute of Technology |
| 9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | BREAK | ||
| 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | 261 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Charlie Ashbacher, Mount Mercy College Computer Science in Kindergarten? Of Course!: The ABC's of the K-12 CSTA Model Curriculum in Computer Science Tim DeClue Southwest Baptist University A Preliminary Report on the Use of Robots with Elementary School Students Phillip Heeler, Linda Heeler and Scott Bell Northwest Missouri State University |
VENDOR SESSION
363 Flarsheim Hall |
TUTORIAL PRESENTATION 310 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Appie van de Liefvoort, University of Missouri - Kansas City An Introduction to Real-Time Embedded Systems John McCormick University of Northern Iowa |
| 10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | BREAK | STUDENT POSTER SESSION 557 Flarsheim Hall |
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| 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | PAPER PRESENTATIONS 261 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Dave Klappholz, Stevens Institute of Technology Enhancing Student Learning Using Concept Mapping and Learning by Teaching Environment Xudong Yu & Steve Klein Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Diversity of Cyberinfrastructure: An Opportunity for Enhanced Education and Research Mufid Abudiab & Ahmed Mahdy Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi |
"NIFTY" COURSE ASSIGNMENTS 304 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Rad Alrifai, Northeastern State University Teaching File Input/Output, Loops, and If-Statements via a Red-Eye Reduction Assignment Timothy Urness Drake University Decrypting the Shark Text Encryption Scheme Using Alphametics in an Introductory Programming Class |
TUTORIAL PRESENTATION 363 Flarsheim Hall Session Chair: Khaled Alshare, Emporia State University Intel Threading Building Blocks Chuck Pheatt Emporia State University |
| 12:15 p.m. -12:30 p.m. | BREAK | ||
| 12:30 p.m | LUNCH Student Awards and Business Meeting Pierson 106 & Alumni Room, University Center |
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| 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Student Programming Contest 460-464, Flarsheim Hall |
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