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  • Supporting the learning process of open source novices : an evaluation of code and project history visualization tools

    Creator:
    Park, Yunrim
    Abstract:
    Active participation and collaboration of community members are crucial to the continuation and expansion of open source software projects. Researchers have recognized the value of community in open source development and studied various aspects of it including structure of communities, motivations for participation, and collaboration among members. However, the majority...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . Margaret Burnett, Dr. Timothy Budd, and Dr. Peter Lachenbruch for reviewing this thesis and providing

  • On feature relevance feedback methods : incorporating labeled user features

    Creator:
    Oberst, Ian
    Abstract:
    In text classification, labeling features is often less time consuming than labeling entire documents. In situations where very little labeled training data is available, feature relevance feedback has the potential to dramatically increase classification performance. We review previous work on incorporating feature relevance feedback in the form of labeled features...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    relevant were scaled by some constant a, while all others were scaled by b. Their second method, feature

  • Computing Resource Usage as a Factor of Student Success

    Creator:
    Moissinac, Béatrice
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    Learning Analytics and other branches of Educational Research such as Computing Education Research (CER) implicitly assume that students, especially college students, have no barriers to access learning platforms or software packages. This assumption may be attributed to such pervasive beliefs such as "everyone has a device", or "everyone can access...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    : Computing Resource Usage as a Factor of Student Success Abstract approved: Jennifer Parham-Mocello Robin B

  • Novel approaches to promoting end-user programming

    Creator:
    Bahmani, Faezeh
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    End-user programming has become widespread. The increasing size of this population and the prevalence of barriers that they face has sparked the development of approaches that promote end-user programing by helping them overcome barriers and teaching them programming. Despite the fact that these approaches have done well in achieving those...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Metoyer, Carlos Jensen, and Peter Lachenbruch for taking the time to read my thesis and for attending my

  • Diagramming practices in open source software development

    Creator:
    Chung, Eunyoung
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    Visual information presented in diagrams promotes information processing both in an individual and in collaborative work. Previous literature has identified the role of diagrams in understanding information processing in a variety of disciplines. In software engineering, diagrams are a prevalent method involved in process development: diagrams are used for system...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    masked for anonymity): (a) flow chart created by P5 with Dia; (b) dependency tree automatically created

  • Use-case-based generation of forms from a class diagram

    Creator:
    Choodamani, Mohan
    Abstract:
    Forms are an easy-to-use interface to access a database, including a remote database on the Internet. An entity-relationship (ER} diagram, which is a picto­rial representation of a database schema, is widely used in designing a database. A class diagram, which shows set of classes, relationships among them, and associa­tions, are...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Introduction The ER approach was first proposed by Peter Chen in 1976. Since then it has been extensively

  • Implementing parameterized types in Java

    Creator:
    Vidos, Hugh
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    The goal of this project was to investigate the addition of parameterized types to the Java programming language. Two different parametric polymorphism mechanisms were developed and compared. The first was a preprocessor and the second was a compiler. Parameterized types allow a programmer to create generic programs. Much as a...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    void main (String args[]) { Object a= new String("Hi"); } } String b; b = (String)a

  • How Should A Deaf Car Drive?

    Creator:
    Grant, Denue, Jr.
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    This thesis seeks to determine whether a self-driving car's behavior should depend on the hearing status of its passengers: namely, hard-of-hearing (including deaf) or hearing. It is believed that auditory deprivation provokes adaptations in visual attention. These adaptations may lead to atypical movement patterns that can translate to different driving...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.1 Discovery Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2 Choice of A/B

  • Structured representation of composite software changes

    Creator:
    Chabra, Aarti
    Abstract:
    In a software development cycle, programs go through many iterations. Identifying and understanding program changes is a tedious but necessary task for programmers, especially when software is developed in a collaborative environment. Existing tools used by the programmers either lack in finding the structural differences, or report the differences as...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Assessing and Finding Faults in AI: Two Empirical Studies

    Creator:
    Khanna, Roli
    Abstract:
    With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in every sphere of life in today's day and age, it has become increasingly important for non-AI experts to be able to comprehend the underlying logic of how AI systems work, assess them and find faults in these systems, particularly when they are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Analysis Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 B Study Design Details