The Association for Computing Machinery

Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

Presents

CCSCNE-2005

The Tenth Annual

Consortium for Computing

Sciences in Colleges

Northeastern Conference

Providence College
April 22 - 23, 2005
Providence, RI 

Papers, Panels, Tutorials,
Pre-Conference Workshops,
Programming Contest, Student Posters

Web Site
http://www.ccscne.org/2005/

 

 

 

Statement of Purpose

The CCSCNE brings together faculty, staff, and students from academic institutions throughout the Northeast for exchange of ideas and information concerning undergraduate computing curricula.

 

Greetings from the Chair

 

Welcome to the tenth anniversary conference of the CCSCNE.  This year’s committee has prepared a set of activities that should appeal to students and teachers of Computer Science.  All of us owe a debt to this group which along with the Board of CCSCNE has met twice in Providence to plan this meeting.  When not meeting face to face, the committee and the board exchange countless emails to make sure that every thing is ready for all of us. 

 

We are honored this year to have plenary talks by Matthias Felliesen of Northeastern University and Jim Kurose of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  Perhaps it is good we removed “small” from our name since these two represent the largest private college in Massachusetts and the largest public college in Massachusetts. 

 

As in past years, the CCSCNE accepted only 49% of the papers that were submitted for the conference.  The breakout sessions also include several panels and tutorials.  This program includes descriptions of all the tutorials and short biographies of the tutorial presenters.

 

Again this year, we have two pre-conference workshops- one on security and one on active learning tools.  You can read about them in this program.

 

And, of course, we have our student contests.  Our poster session must be one of the largest at any CCSC conference and the same is true for our programming contest.  Be sure to visit the poster session and listen at the banquet for the winners of both of the student events.

 

Next year, we travel a little north of Providence to hold our conference in Worcester again but this time we will be at Holy Cross.  We would love to have more participation at every stage of the conference.  Send in papers, panel proposals, tutorial and workshop proposals for next year’s conference.  Join the conference committee to plan these events.  Offer to host the conference.  The evaluation form for the conference has a place to volunteer to host or participate on the committee.

 

I hope you enjoy yourself and maybe have some time to see some of the city.  See you next year at Holy Cross.

 

Frank Ford, Providence College

Conference Chair

 

This map is a copy from the College Web Site:

http://www.providence.edu/NR/rdonlyres/322DA469-892B-46C3-BB5B-4707BEC792AD/4108/campusmapfall04.JPG

2005 Conference Committee

Conference Chair

Frank Ford, Providence College

            fpford@providence.edu

 

 

Papers Chairs                                       

Dale Fish, Worcester State College

            dfish1@worcester.edu

Michael Gousie, Wheaton College

            mgousie@wheatonma.edu

Brad Richards,Vassar College

            richards@cs.vassar.edu

 

 

Undergraduate Posters Chairs            

Jim Teresco, Williams College

            terescoj@cs.williams.edu

David Hemmendinger, Union College

            hemmendd@union.edu

 

 

Panels/Tutorials/Workshops Chairs    

Clare Bates Congdon, Colby College

            ccongdon@colby.edu

Lonnie Fairchild, SUNY-Plattsburgh

            Lonnie.fairchild@plattsburgh.edu

 

 

Speakers  Chair                                

Scott Hunter, Siena College

            shunter@siena.edu

 

Publicity  Chair                                 

Frank Ford, Providence College

            fpford@providence.edu

 

Vendors  Chairs 

Hemant Pendharkar,    

            Worcester State College

            hpendharkar@worcester.edu                          

Kris Powers, Tufts University

            Kris.Powers@tufts.edu

  

Programming Contest  Chairs              

Richard Connelly, Providence College

            rconnell@providence.edu

Mary Russell. Providence College

            mrussell@providence.edu

 

Registration Chair

Danny Kopec, Brooklyn College

            kopec@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu

 

Local Arrangements Chair

Linda Wilkens, Providence College

            lwilkens@providence.edu

Referees - 2005 CCSC Northeastern Conference

 

The conference committee acknowledges with gratitude the work of the reviewers listed here.  All papers were blind-reviewed by several referees independently and the Papers Chairs used this information to select the papers which appear at this conference. Without these reviewers, we would not be able to maintain the selectivity and high paper quality that we consider so important to this conference.

 

Ernest Ackermann 

  University of Mary Washington, VA

Brian Adams 

  Franklin & Marshall College, PA

Elizabeth Adams

  James Madison University, VA

Don Allison 

  SUNY College at Oneonta, NY

John Avitabile

  College of Saint Rose, NY

Pazel Azalov

  Penn State, PA

Norman Bashias

  Manhattanville College, NY

Gordon Bassen

   Kingsborough Comm. College, NY

Jonathan Blake 

   Quinnipiac University, CT

Stephen Bloch

   Adelphi University, NY

Maegan Bos 

   St. Lawrence University, NY

Barbara Bracken 

   Wilkes University, PA

Elena Braynova

   Worcester State College, MA

Loreen Butcher-Powell

   Bloomsburg University, PA

Lawrence D'Antonio

   Ramapo College of New Jersey, NJ

Joan DeBello

   St. John's University, NY

Peter Drexel

   Plymouth State University, NH

Emanuel Emanouilidis

   Kean University, NJ

Lonnie Roth Fairchild 

   SUNY-Plattsburgh, NY

Ed Harcourt

   St. Lawrence University, NY

Stephen Hartley 

   Rowan University, NJ

David Hemmendinger

  Union College, NY

Mark Hoffman

  Quinnipiac University, CT

Donald Hsu

  Dominican College, NY

Scott Hunter

  Siena College, NY

Lubomir Ivanov

  Iona College, NY

Patricia Joseph

   Slippery Rock Univ. of Penn., PA

Yana Kortsarts           

   Widener University, PA

Alina Lazar           

   Youngstown State University, OH

Mark LeBlanc

    Wheaton College, MA

David Levine           

    St. Bonaventure University, NY

Aparna Mahadev           

    Worcester State College, MA

Robert McCloskey       

    University of Scranton, PA

William Meyers           

    Belmont Abbey College, NC

Robert W. Neufeld       

    McPherson College, KS

Robert Noonan           

    College of William and Mary, VA

Edward O'Neill           

     Fairfield University, CT

Eileen Peluso           

     Lycoming College, PA

Kris Powers           

     Tufts University, MA

Stefan Robila           

     Montclair State University, NJ

Ingrid Russell           

     University of Hartford, CT

Rebecca Rutherfoord       

     Southern Polyt. State Univ., GA

Mihaela Sabin           

    Rivier College, NH

Ching-Kuang Shene       

    Michigan Technological Univ., MI

Rose Shumba           

    Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, PA

Evelyn Stiller           

     Plymouth State University, NH

Joo Tan

   Mansfield University, PA

Goran Trajkovski 

   Towson University, MD

John Vaughn

   Hobart and William Smith Colls., NY

Ellen Walker

   Hiram College, OH

Laurie Werner           

   Miami University, OH

Linda Wilkens

   Providence College, RI

Karl R. Wurst 

   Worcester State College, MA

Fani Zlatarova

   Elizabethtown College, PA

 

Friday, April 22, 2005

REGISTRATION............................................................................... 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Slavin Center Glass Room (112)

      Registration for Programming contest’s participants in Albertus Magnus 137.

      Registration for Pre-Conference Workshop Attendees at Workshop at 8:00 a.m.

PROGRAMMING CONTEST......................................................... 8:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

.....

..... Breakfast and Registration of Teams and Team Members..................... 8:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m.

Albertus Magnus 137

..... Computers Available for Teams to Practice.......................................... 8:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m.

Albertus Magnus 102 and Sowa 228

..... Initial Meeting and Presentation of the Problems................................... 8:45 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Albertus Magnus 137

..... Contest Time.......................................................................................... 9:00 a.m. - Noon

Albertus Magnus 102 and Sowa 228

..... Luncheon for Teams............................................................................... Noon-12:45 p.m.

Albertus Magnus 106

 

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS...................................................... 9:00 a.m.-noon

 

Focus on the Design of Classes in OO Programming Courses

            Viera K. Proulx and Tanya Cashorali, Northeastern University, MA

                        (see description after program)

Slavin Center G01

 

 

A Workshop on Computer Security

             Narayan Murthy and Daniel Farkas, Pace University

                        (see description after program)

Accinno 101

 

VENDOR DISPLAYS........................................................................ 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Slavin Center Glass Room (112)

WELCOME.......................................................................................... 1:00 p.m.-1:15 p.m.

Slavin Center 64 Hall

   Greetings from

            Hugh Lena, Vice-President for Academic Administration

            Frank Ford, Conference Chair, Providence College

 

 

PLENARY SESSION I......................................................................... 1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

The First Year

Matthias Felleisen, Northeastern University

Slavin Center 64 Hall

(See abstract and speaker information after the program.)

 

BREAK................................................................................................ 2:15 p.m.-2:45  p.m.

Slavin Center Glass Room (112)

 

CONCURRENT SESSION 1.............................................................. 2:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

 

Session 1a: Papers: Special Topics

Moore Hall I

   Physical Computing and Multimodal Input in Computer-Human Interfaces Interfaces

        Lori Scarlatos, Brooklyn College, NY

        Tony Scarlatos, Stony Brook University, NY

   An Expert System Development Environment for Introductory AI Course Projects

         Cynthia Martincic, Saint Vincent College, PA

         Douglas Metzler, University of Pittsburgh, PA

  Rocktest: A Programming Contest Management System

         Michael Conlon, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

 

Session 1b: Papers: Teaching/Debugging Techniques

Moore Hall II

   A Tutor on Subprogram Implementation

          Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey

          Eric Fernandes, Ramapo College of New Jersey

   Aspect-Oriented Debugging

          John Stamey, Coastal Carolina University, NC

   Back to the Future: A Look at Recursive Binary Trees

          John Beidler, University of Scranton, PA

          Carolyn Smart, University of Scranton, PA

 

Session 1c - Tutorial: Randomized Algorithms

Moore Hall III

    Yana Kortsarts, Widener University, Chester, PA 

    Jeffrey Rufinus, Widener University, Chester, PA 

     (see description after program)

    

BREAK................................................................................................. 4:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.

Slavin Center Glass Room

CONCURRENT SESSION 2.............................................................. 4:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

 

Session 2a: Papers: Assembly Language Issues

Moore Hall I

   Teaching Assembly Language Without Using (As Much) Assembly Language

      Scott Hunter, Siena College, NY

 

   The Effect Of The Harvard Architecture On The Teaching Of Assembly Language

       W. Douglas Maurer, George Washington University, DC

 

Session 2b - Panel: Considerations on Undergraduate CS Research

Moore Hall II

                Stefan A. Robila, Montclair State University, NJ

                Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey

                Doug Baldwin, SUNY-Geneseo, NY

                Clare Congdon, Colby College, ME

 

 

STUDENT POSTERS/SOCIAL HOUR.............................................. 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Slavin Center 64 Hall

      The list of posters, poster presenters, and their advisors is listed after the program.

 

BANQUET............................................................................................ 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Raymond Dining Center

Winners of the Programming Contest and Student Poster Session

will be announced at the banquet

 

 

Saturday, April 23, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST.......................................................... 7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Slavin Center Glass Room (112)

REGISTRATION.............................................................................. .8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Slavin Center Glass Room (112)

 

VENDOR DISPLAYS........................................................................ 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Slavin Center Glass Room (112)

 

CONCURRENT SESSION 3............................................................... 8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.

 

Session 3A:  Papers: Introductory Computing

Moore Hall I

   A New Approach To Computer Science in the Liberal Arts

       Brendan Burns, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

   A Critical Computer Literacy Course

       Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University, CT

   Designing and Running a Pre-College Computing Course

       Mihaela Sabin, Rivier College, NH

       Bryan Higgs, Rivier College, NH

       Vladimir Riabov, Rivier College, NH

       Alberto Moreira, Rivier College, NH

 

Session 3b: Papers: Upper-level Curriculum

Moore Hall II

    The Virtual Firefly: An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Project

       Kevin Austin, Fitchburg State College, MA

       Julie Dunlap, Fitchburg State College, MA

       Matthew Glover, Fitchburg State College, MA

       Joshua McKinnon, Fitchburg State College, MA

       Duane Mohney, Fitchburg State College, MA

       Michael Taft, Fitchburg State College, MA

       Brian Vysocky, Fitchburg State College, MA

       Christopher Cratsley, Fitchburg State College, MA

    Real-World Project Management in the Academic Environment

       Joo Tan, Mansfield University, PA

       John Phillips, Mansfield University, MA

    Playing Around in the CS Curriculum:  Reversi as a Teaching Tool

       David Valentine, Slippery Rock University, PA

 

Session 3c - Panel: Innovation in Undergraduate Computer Science Education

Moore Hall III

                Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey

                Homma Farian, SUNY-Geneseo, NY

                Matthew Haas, Corning Community College, NY

                David Kay, University of California, Irvine

                Frank Lee, Drexel University, PA

                Yelena Kushleyeva, Drexel University, PA

 

PLENARY SESSION II................................................................... 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Reaching Students at a Distance: from Videotape to the Internet

to Online, Interactive Books

Jim Kurose,

Slavin Center 64 Hall

 (See abstract and speaker information after the program.)

BREAK............................................................................................. 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Slavin Center 64 Hall

 

CONCURRENT SESSION 4.......................................................... 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

 

Session 4a: Papers: Software Development

Moore Hall I

    A Software Development Project: A Student-Written Assessment System

        Sofya Poger, Iona College, NY

        Catherine Ricardo, Iona College, NY

        Robert Schiaffino, Iona College, NY

    Incorporating a Fault Categorization and Analysis Process in the Software Build 

        Cycle

        Carol Masuck, University of Idaho

    Teaching Software Engineering Using a Traceability- based Development

       Methodology

       T.M. Rao,  SUNY Brockport

       Sandeep Mitra, SUNY Brockport

       Thomas Bullinger, Archsynergy, ltd.

 

Session 4b:     Introductory Computer Science

Moore Hall II

     A Student Model for Object-Oriented Design and Programming

        Fang Wei, Lehigh University, PA

        Sally Moritz, Lehigh University, PA

        Shahida Parvez, Lehigh University, PA

        Glenn Blank, Lehigh University, PA

    Student Competitions and Bots in an Introductory Programming Course

         Ed Harcourt, St. Lawrence University, NY

         Brian Ladd, St. Lawrence University, NY

    Student Performance Studying Ethics in the Context of Internet Use

         Barbara Boucher Owens, Southwestern University, TX

 

Session 4c - Tutorial: Including a Web/Database Unit in CS0