3 papers
cs.CY2024
A Problem-Based Learning Approach to Teaching Design in CS1
Christopher William Schankula, Habib Ghaffari Hadigheh, Spencer Smith +1
Design skills are increasingly recognized as a core competency for software professionals. Unfortunately, these skills are difficult to teach because design requires freedom and op…
cs.CY2024
A Web App for Teaching Finite State Automata
Christopher William Schankula, Lucas Dutton
We present the open-source tool finsm.io, a tool for creating, simulating and exporting deterministic and non-deterministic finite state automata (DFA/NFA). We first describe the c…
cs.SE2024
A Software Engineering Capstone Course Facilitated By GitHub Templates
Spencer Smith, Christopher William Schankula, Lucas Dutton +1
How can instructors facilitate spreading out the work in a software engineering or computer science capstone course across time and among team members? Currently teams often compro…