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AMONG the repertoire of ac cepted pedagogic techniques available to teachers, learning by discovery enjoys a proper and established place. For cer tain purposes and under certain condi tions, this procedure has a defensible ra tionale and undoubted advantages. Hence the issue is not whether it should or should not be used in the classroom, but rather for what purposes and under what conditions....

A directory of Internet resources by subject is an important section of any academic library's Web pages. A common problem faced by many libraries is the difficulty of updating such a page. At CSUSB library, we have developed a large "Internet Resources by Subject" database. Fourteen quick-launching Perl CGI scripts have been written to create a userfriendly interface to update the database, al...

The Postmodernity, as a controversial phenomenon, is generally characterized by the decline of metanarratives, fragmentation modern subject-individual, and transformation industrial age. These discussions are often surrounded with concepts facts like multiple-subject, minor-narratives, post-Fordism, neoliberalism (mobilization work, education, politics social integration). In center these disco...

This position paper presents work in progress on a formal model for the composition of object-oriented hyperslices with method-level join points. With the formal model, we should be able to study existing approaches such as subject-oriented programming, as well as extend other object-oriented languages, such as the UML, to accommodate the use of hyperslices. We show here a sample of the specifi...

Teaching introductory object-oriented programming presents considerable challenges. Some of these challenges are due to the intrinsic complexity of the subject matter — object-oriented concepts are tightly interrelated and appear in many combinations. The present work describes an approach to modeling educational domains and reports on the results for object-orientation. It analyzes the depende...