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  • Gamification in SE Courses 

    Kiper, James
    The sources and styles of student motivation have changed as the use of computing technology has become more ubiquitous. Instructors observations often lead to the conclusion that students’ attention span has shorten. ...
  • Inservice Education of High School Computer Science Teachers 

    Kiper, James; Rouse, Bill; Troy, Douglas (1988-09-01)
    The United States urgently needs strong high school computer science programs. Our economy and the technological level of our society depend upon a continuing supply of high quality scientists, mathematicians, engineers, ...
  • The Integration of Software Development Tools 

    Kiper, James (1987-04-01)
    The effectiveness of software development tools can be dr creased by their integration (i.e. their cooperation). This paper discusses the problems to be overcome in integration of tools, and a categorization of the degree ...
  • A Language for Rule-based Systems 

    Kiper, James (1988-09-01)
    Expert systems are proliferating in many situations in which it is important to capture expertise in a computer system. This type of system is useful in situations in which human expertise is expensive or difficult to ...
  • Objects and Types: A Tutorial 

    Kiper, James (1988-08-01)
    This paper is a tutorial explaining the concepts that surround abstract data types and object-oriented programming, and the relationships between these groups of concepts. These concepts include types (languagedefied, ...
  • Techniques for the Integration of Existing Tools 

    Kiper, James (1988-03-01)
    The purpose of this paper is to explain and demonstrate the advantages of tool integration and the reuse of tools. Several techniques for the integration of existing tools are presented and discussed. These techniques ...
  • Visual Depiction of Decision Statements: What is Best for Programmers and Non-programmers 

    Kiper, James; Auerheimer, Brent; Ames, Charles (1997-03-01)
    This paper reports the results of two experiments investigating differences in comprehensibility of textual and graphical notations for representing decision statements. The first experiment was a replication of a prior ...