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Rabkin, Ariel; Reiss, Charles; Katz, Randy; Patterson, David – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
We describe our experiences teaching MapReduce in a large undergraduate lecture course using public cloud services and the standard Hadoop API. Using the standard API, students directly experienced the quality of industrial big-data tools. Using the cloud, every student could carry out scalability benchmarking assignments on realistic hardware,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Undergraduate Study, Computer Networks, Educational Technology
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Yuan, Xiaohong; Vega, Percy; Qadah, Yaseen; Archer, Ricky; Yu, Huiming; Xu, Jinsheng – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
Using animated visualization tools has been an important teaching approach in computer science education. We have developed three visualization and animation tools that demonstrate various information security concepts and actively engage learners. The information security concepts illustrated include: packet sniffer and related computer network…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Visualization, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study