Incorporating computer-assisted assessment to Bachelor of Science in industrial technology courses

School of Computer Science Courses

Each Carnegie Mellon course number begins with a two-digit prefix which designates the department offering the course (76-xxx courses are offered by the Department of English, etc.). Although each department maintains its own course numbering practices, typically the first digit after the prefix indicates the class level: xx-1xx courses are freshmen-level, xx-2xx courses are sophomore level, et...

A Computer-Assisted Approach to Diagnosing Student Learning Problems in Science courses

The growing popularity of computer networks has led researchers to attempt to develop distance learning systems. However, students in network-based learning environments may need additional guidance and assistance when they encounter problems in learning certain concepts. Therefore, how to provide testing and diagnostic mechanisms in a computer-assisted learning environment is an important issu...

Patterns as Topics in Computer Science Courses

I strongly believe that writing patterns is an excellent way to describe well-known, proven software engineering principles and programming concepts. I also believe that reading, discussing and applying patterns are great ways to learn about these elements, and that these efforts should begin in a student’s very first undergraduate computer science course – SC1. However, I do not believe that i...

Lossless Message Compression Bachelor Thesis in Computer Science

In this thesis we investigated whether using compression when sending inter-process communication (IPC) messages can be beneficial or not. A literature study on lossless compression resulted in a compilation of algorithms and techniques. Using this compilation, the algorithms LZO, LZFX, LZW, LZMA, bzip2 and LZ4 were selected to be integrated into LINX as an extra layer to support lossless messa...

Bachelor thesis in Computer Science On Parsing Expression Grammars