Volume 66 - Computing Education 2007

Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Victoria, January 30 to February 2, 2007

Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol. 29, No. 5

This volume contains proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Victoria, January 30 to February 2, 2007. Where indicated, the paper is available for download in PDF or Postscript format.

The series is published by, and most papers are copyright of, the Australian Computer Society Inc. Reproduction for academic research and not-for-profit purposes is granted provided the copyright notice on the first page of each paper is included.

Edited by Samuel Mann and Simon. Published January 2007. ISBN-13 1-920-68246-5. ISSN 1445-1336. 21 Papers, xvi+180 pages, softcover. Order or Recommend this Volume. BiBTeX file for Volume. Complete Volume.

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Acceptance Rate Information. The full papers in this volume were peer refereed, in full, by an international programme committee. The acceptance rate was 48.8% (21 from 43).

Volume Citation

Mann, S. and Simon, Eds. (2007). Computing Education 2007. Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007). CRPIT. 66. Ballarat, Australia, ACS.

Papers Included in the Volume

Carbone, A., de Raadt, M., Kay, J., Lister, R., Litchfield, A., Raban, R., Roe, P., Santamaria, D., Sheard, J., Shepherd, J., Solomon, A. and Thomas, R. (2007). The Carrick Vision and Computing Education: Four Case Studies in Multi-institutional Collaboration. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 3-8.
Ceddia, J., Sheard, J. and Tibbey, G. (2007). WAT - A Tool for Classifying Learning Activities from a Log File. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 11-18.
D'Souza, D., Hamilton, M. and Harris, M.C. (2007). Software Development Marketplaces - Implications for Plagiarism. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 27-33.
Doyle, B. and Lister, R. (2007). Why Teach Unix?. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 19-25.
Haley, D.T., Thomas, P., De Roeck, A. and Petre, M. (2007). Measuring Improvement in Latent Semantic Analysis-Based Marking Systems: Using a Computer to Mark Questions about HTML. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 35-42.
Hamer, J., Kell, C. and Spence, F. (2007). Peer Assessment Using Aropa. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 43-54.
Hamilton, M. and Berry, M. (2007). Mobile Computing, Programming, Games and Online Communities: Changes to the Communicative Ecology of Design Students Through Mobile Computing: Part 2. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 55-61.
Herbert, N. (2007). Quantitative Peer Assessment: Can students be objective?. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 63-71.
Herbert, N. and Wang, Z. (2007). Student timesheets can aid in curriculum coordination. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 73-80.
Karahasanovic, A. and Thomas, R.C. (2007). Difficulties experienced by students in maintaining object-oriented systems: an empirical study. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 81-87.
Kay, J., Li, L. and Fekete, A. (2007). Learner Reflection in Student Self-assessment. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 89-95.
Lister, R., Berglund, A., Box, I., Cope, C., Pears, A., Avram, C., Bower, M., Carbone, A., Davey, B., de Raadt, M., Doyle, B., Fitzgerald, S., Mannila, L., Kutay, C., Peltomaki, M., Sheard, J., Simon, Sutton, K., Traynor, D., Tutty, J. and Venables, A. (2007). Differing Ways that Computing Academics Understand Teaching. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 97-106.
Lutteroth, C., Luxton-Reilly, A., Dobbie, G. and Hamer, J. (2007). A Maturity Model for Computing Education. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 107-114.
Mann, S. and Smith, L. (2007). Software engineering class eating its own tail. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 115-123.
Pauling, J.W. and Komisarczuk, P. (2007). Review of Work Experience in a Bachelor of Information Technology. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 125-132.
Simon (2007). Mandatory fields - a case study in the divergence between education and practice. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 133-139.
Stanley, T.D., Xuan, T.Q., Fife, L. and Colton, D. (2007). Simple Eight Bit, Emulated Computers for Illustrating Computer Architecture Concepts and Providing a Starting Point for Student Designs. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 141-146.
Strooper, P. and Meinicke, L. (2007). Evaluation of a New Assesment Scheme for a Third-year Concurrency Course. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 147-154.
Thompson, E. (2007). Holistic assessment criteria - Applying SOLO to programming projects. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 155-162.
von Konsky, B.R., Ivins, J. and Gribble, S.J. (2007). Engaging Undergraduates in Discussions about Ethics in Computing. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 163-169.
Whalley, J., Prasad, C. and Kumar, P.K.A. (2007). Decoding Doodles: Novice Programmers and Their Annotations. In Proc. Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 66. Mann, S. and Simon, Eds., ACS. 171-178.

Papers listed: 21