ACM SIGCSE Bulletin

From the last couple of issues, lots of good stuff:

Volume 38, issue 3

• Some experiences with the "contributing student approach" by John Hamer
  
• The use of community-based non-profit organizations in information systems capstone projects by Paul M. Leidig, Roger Ferguson, Jonathan Leidig
  
• Building a search engine to drive problem-based learning by Steven Bird, James R. Curran
  
• Gender gap in computer science does not exist in one former soviet republic: results of a study by Hasmik Gharibyan, Stephan Gunsaulus
  
• Once she makes it, she is there: gender differences in computer science study by Tamar Vilner, Ela Zur
  
• The first programming course: ideas to end the enrollment decline by Joe Bergin, Raymond Lister, Barbara Boucher Owens, Myles McNally

Volume 38, Issue 2

• Thinking professionally: The shinning face of plagiarism: the graying of an issue by Don Gotterbarn
  
• Thinking ISsues: On the necessity of removing "cruelty" from the teaching of computing by Tony Clear
  
• IS education: Graduate curriculum now available by John T. Gorgone
  
• CS research: Call me Ishmael: Charles Dickens meets Moby Book by Raymond Lister
  
• Most difficult topics in CS1: results of an online survey of educators by Nell B. Dale
  
• Undergraduate studies in computer science and engineering: gender issues by Aristidis Ilias, Maria Kordaki
  
• Desirable attributes for computing graduates: is there agreement? by Cindy H. Randall, Barbara A. Price
  
• Experiences teaching a graduate research methods course by Clifford A. Shaffer Amazing article, a must read. How to integrate the library in a CS grad curriculum!
  
• MSIS 2006: model curriculum and guidelines for graduate degree programs in information systems by John T. Gorgone, Paul Gray, Edward A. Stohr, Joseph S. Valacich, Rolf T. Wigand