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Sean Michael Kross – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Data science encompasses the most prominent collection of methods for creating scientific knowledge in the 21st century. Currently, data scientists must navigate a wide-ranging and often incoherent ecosystem of tools, in addition to organizing sociotechnical interactions with colleagues across many fields of expertise. This predicament motivates…
Descriptors: Data Science, Computer Software, Interpersonal Relationship, Expertise
Biyi Wen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is an inquiry into the history of Chinese computer-based word processing technologies from 1958 to 1997. My purpose in looking into the history is to answer, how the development and usage of word-processing technologies have contributed to knowledge production, by shaping the understanding of what information technologies can do.…
Descriptors: History, Chinese, Word Processing, Computer Software
Devon M. Christman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Computer use has become a fact of life, especially for children, many of whom were forced to switch to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and resorted to digital hobbies as a safety measure. Further the amount of time children spend on computers, as well as the number of different computer devices that pervade our post-pandemic society…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Use, Information Technology, Cognitive Science
Marjorie Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This project was the creation of a student support site to address student knowledge and skills needs at CC. The purpose of the project was to create on-demand training and frequently-asked-question pages. The site can be updated and expanded as needed. Lack of knowledge is a prevalent issue impacting student success in college. Current literature…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learning Management Systems, Programming, Web Sites
Jose Antonio Lecea Yanguas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents the first Systemic Functional Linguistics-based analysis of the teaching/learning of computational thinking through computer programming and comprehensive analysis of discourse of a whole computer programming course at any educational level. The current educational research raises questions about the nature of authentic…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Al-Makhzoomy, Alaa Khalaf – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The study investigated the effect of Game Development-Based Learning (GDBL) on the ability of IT undergraduates in Jordanian universities to define the concepts of computer programming and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and their ability to program in C++. An instruction was designed for an eight-week-long online course to allow the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Games, Information Technology, Undergraduate Students
Ruiqi Shen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
With the large demand for technology workers all around the world, more people are learning programming. Studies show that human tutoring is the most effective way to learn for novice programmers. However, problems such as the inaccessibility to physical classes, prohibitive costs, and the lack of educators may limit students' opportunities to…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Online Systems, Interactive Video, Computer Assisted Instruction
Russell, Kyle – ProQuest LLC, 2014
While accessibility of information technologies is often acknowledged as important, it is frequently not well addressed in practice. The purpose of this study was to examine the work of web developers and content managers to explore why and how accessibility is or is not addressed as an objective as websites are planned, built and maintained.…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Web Sites, Access to Information, Information Technology
Okongo, James – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The failure rate of information technology (IT) development projects is a significant concern for today's organizations. Perceptions of IT project risk and project performance have been identified as important factors by scholars studying the topic, and Wallace, Keil, and Rai (2004a) developed a survey instrument to measure how dimensions of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Software, Risk, Performance
Bitner, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Information Technology (IT) employment shortages may be related to employee retirement or normal attrition. Within IT job shortages, tacit knowledge is lost when employees retire or leave organizations. Tacit knowledge is unwritten or unspoken knowledge that is not easily articulated, and exists only with the individuals who obtain the knowledge…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Information Technology, Professional Personnel, Programming
Irani, Lilly Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the politics of design practice in urban India through an ethnography of a Delhi-based design and innovation studio. The dissertation focuses on the ideological continuities between the profession of design and middle class Indian citizenship post-liberalization, twinning arts of governance through the shaping of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Design, Programming, Ethnography
Mynyk, John – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Organizations that depend on the use of IT in their business models must maintain their systems and keep their systems current to survive (Filipek, 2008; Kulkarni, Kumar, Mookerjee, & Sethi, 2009; Unterkalmsteiner et al., 2012). As most IT departments allocate as much as 80% of their budget to maintain stability while leaving only the other…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Information Technology, Standards, Programming
Seyed, Ali Patrice – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry initiative is a collaborative effort for developing interoperable, science-based ontologies. The Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) serves as the upper ontology for the domain-level ontologies of OBO. BFO is an upper ontology of types as conceived by defenders of realism. Among the ontologies developed for OBO…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Computer Software, Expertise, Programming
O'Horo, Neal O. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative survey study was to test the Leontief input/output theory relating the input of IT certification to the output of the English-speaking U.S. human resource professional perceived IT professional job performance. Participants (N = 104) rated their perceptions of IT certified vs. non-IT certified professionals' job…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Certification, Human Resources, Professional Personnel
Boxwell, Stephen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Treebanks are a necessary prerequisite for many NLP tasks, including, but not limited to, semantic role labeling. For many languages, however, treebanks are either nonexistent or too small to be useful. Time-critical applications may require rapid deployment of natural language software for a new critical language--much faster than the development…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Training, Programming, Computer System Design