Teaching Computing without Computers: Unplugged Computing as a Pedagogical Strategy

Reversible Logic as a Strategy for Computing

a paradigm shift away from method-wise teaching to strategy-wise teaching: an investigation of reconstructive strategy versus communicative strategy

چکیده: هدف اصلی این مطالعه ی توصیفی تحقیقی در حقیقت تلاشی پساروش-گرا به منظور رسیدن به نتیجه ای منطقی در انتخاب مناسبترین راهکار آموزشی بر گرفته از چارچوب راهبردی مطرح شده توسط والدمر مارتن بوده که به بهترین شکل سازگار و مناسب با سامانه ی آموزشی ایران باشد. از این رو، دو راهکار آموزشی، راهکار ارتباطی و راهکار بازساختی، برای تحقیق و بررسی انتخاب شدند. صریحاً اینکه، در راستای هدف اصلی این پژوهش، ر...

Personal Computers: A Gateway to Personal Computing

This article is a personal journey, from the early days of batch processing to the modern personal computing era. The journey begins in the early 1970s and starts with the punch cards at the computer centre of the University of Jyväskylä. The use of minicomputers (HP 2100 series) gave a different view – how to collect and process data with a computer. Honeywell timesharing systems made it possi...

Computers as components - principles of embedded computing system design

Teaching cloud computing

When a new area of a discipline emerges, university teachers are faced with the problem of when (and if) this should be introduced into their courses. They have to ask two questions: firstly, is this something that is attracting a lot of publicity but which will have little long-term impact and secondly, what are the essential elements of this topic, which should be part of an enduring course. ...