The level of difficulty of the first programming course students face has increased considerably when the switch from C++ to Java was made. In an effort to decrease attrition rates and to recruit more students to computer science, the Computer Science Department at California Lutheran University introduced CS0, the pre CS1 course. With restructuring of CS0, the 3D animation software Alice was c...

The present paper has been specifically designed to scrutinize the aspect of colorism in Toni Morrisons well acclaimed novel God Help Child. African American literature is an academic body writing produced by descendants residing America. literary canon African- emerged late part 18th century oral forms like sermon, gospel, music, jazz, blues and spirituals. writers have deliberately expressed ...

We study oblivious storage (OS), a natural way to model privacy-preserving data outsourcing where a client, Alice, stores sensitive data at an honest-but-curious server, Bob. We show that Alice can hide both the content of her data and the pattern in which she accesses her data, with high probability, using a method that achieves O(1) amortized rounds of communication between her and Bob for ea...

Intuition. Suppose that your lecturer writes the number 25927 on the board and asks everyone in the class for its prime factorisation. Immediately Alice, who is incidentally a friend of the lecturer, shouts 11 × 2357. What conclusion can be drawn from this? Can we conclude that Alice is very good at factoring integers? It might haven been the case that Alice’s favourite primes are 11 and 2357 a...

This type of game was introduced by Bodlaender [2]. He considers a variant, which we will call game g, in which Alice must move first and passing is not allowed. In order to obtain upper and lower bounds for a parameter associated with game g, two other variants are useful. In the game B Bob may move first. He may also miss one or several turns, but Alice must always move. In the other variant,...

In previous studies, we have used quantitative methods to examine the effectiveness of the Alice programming language in terms of student enjoyment, confidence, and learning outcomes. However, in terms of the overall quality of a learning experience, quantitative measures provide only part of the story. This paper reports on the use of Alice from a student perspective using qualitative data gat...