Try - or - How To Avoid Testing Student Programs

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Teaching Inheritance Versus Inclusion to First Year Computer Science Students

1996 SIGCSE Technical Symposium

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A Software Infrastructure to Support Introductory Computer Science Courses

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The Well-Tempered Semaphore: Theme With Variations

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• A handout showing monitor solutions to four classic problems using the wrapper classes in PostScript or PDF
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Design Patterns for Semaphores

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• Writeups of several projects I've assigned in the past: Party Time in the Dorms, Creating Sulfuric Acid, Magic 7's, RDOS Message Passing, Pairs, Process Groups, The Game of Plyst

What's New in Lwroff

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C

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PostScript

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