Teaching Key Topics in Computer Science and Information Systems through a Web Search Engine Project

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 2-

  Chau, Michael ^a   Huang, Zan ^b   Chen, Hsinchun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; education; indexing; Web computing; Web search engine; Web spiders

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEM INTEGRATION; WEB COMPUTING; WEB SPIDERS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 21244440689     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: 15314278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1029994.1029996     Document Type: Article

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