This study provides the first causal analysis of the impact of expanding Computer Science (CS) education in U.S. K-12 schools on students' choice of college major and early career outcomes. Utilizing rich longitudinal data from Maryland, we exploit variation from the staggered rollout of CS...

Innerhalb der NORDAKADEMIE-Vorlesung "Programmierung 1" erhalten die Teilnehmenr eine Grundausbildung in der Programmierung mithilfe der Programmiersprache Smalltalk. Diese Vorlesung soll nun um kooperative Elemente, die online über die Lernplattform moodle vermittelt werden, erweitert werden....

Since the 1660’s the scientific method has included reproducibility as a mainstay in its effort to root error from scientific discovery. With the explosive growth of digitization in scientific research and communication, it is easier than ever to satisfy this requirement. In computational...

Technological advances such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) have increased the feasibility and importance of effectively integrating information from an ever widening number of systems within and across enterprises. A key difficulty of achieving this goal comes from the pervasive...