Research software is often built as prototypes that never get widespread usage and are left
unmaintained after a few papers get published. To counteract this trend, we propose a …

Previous research on the effects of live program composition in computer science education
has shown mixed results; while live programming is well-received by students and can …

Numerous Program Visualization tools (PVs) have been developed for assisting novice
students to understand their source code further. However, none of them are practical to be …

This paper describes DISSAV: Dynamic Interactive Stack Smashing Attack Visualization, a
program visualization tool for teaching stack smashing attacks. DISSAV is a web-based …

Based on the fact that the impact of educational tools can only be accurately measured
through student-centered evaluation, this paper proposes a long-term in-class evaluation for …

The performance of computing devices has been increasing steadily. Historically, the
increased performance has mainly been due to an increase in the operating frequency of …

Educational tool is one of the prominent solutions for aiding students to learn course
material in Information Technology (IT) domain. However, most of them are not used in …

Previous research has shown that even though many students are aware of overarching
problems with concurrency, they are less successful in addressing any issues they have …

Algorithm time complexity is an important topic to be learned for programmer; it could define
whether an algorithm is practical to be used on real environment or not. However, learning …

The aim of this thesis is to improve student learning of advanced cybersecurity topics, more
specifically, stack smashing attacks, by increasing student engagement and interaction. To …