Teaching web information retrieval to undergraduates

McCown, Frank

doi:10.1145/1734263.1734294

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“…The exams administered in both offerings covered the same topics and were both void of programming assignments. Similarly to McCown's experience with his web information retrieval course [10], we observed that the overall exam averages were quite similar for the two offerings of the course (81 % in 2008 and 79 % in 2010). The project averages were also similar (82 % in 2008 and 86 % in 2010).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Teaching garbage collection with open source virtual machine

Defoe

2011

Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Information Technology Education

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Garbage collection is an integral and fundamental component of every modern memory-managed programming language platform such as Java and Microsoft .Net. Yet, few Computer Science and Information Technology programs offer students a course on garbage collection. High tech companies wish that their new employees knew something about garbage collection as this would help them with decisions concerning languages that are most appropriate for implementing software solutions on behalf of their clients. To address this limitation, we have created a junior level undergraduate garbage collection course that gives students practical experience in exploring, designing, and implementing garbage collection algorithms in the context of an open source virtual machine. We have taught this course twice and on both occasions students were pleased with their learning experience.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Teaching garbage collection with open source virtual machine

Defoe

2011

Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Information Technology Education

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“…Reports discussing instruction and tutorials related to general web and scholarly APIs are available outside the library science literature, spanning disciplines such as computer science, business, data science, chemistry, and bioinformatics. For example, web APIs were taught in the computer science curriculum at Harding University (McCown, 2010). As part of an undergraduate course focused on web information retrieval, students were tasked with using the Yahoo web API to build a search engine (McCown, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, web APIs were taught in the computer science curriculum at Harding University (McCown, 2010). As part of an undergraduate course focused on web information retrieval, students were tasked with using the Yahoo web API to build a search engine (McCown, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Creating a Scholarly API Cookbook: Supporting Library Users with Programmatic Access to Information

Scalfani,

Walker,

Simpson

et al. 2023

ISTL

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Scholarly web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) allow users to interact with information and data programmatically. Interacting with information programmatically allows users to create advanced information query workflows and quickly access machine-readable data for downstream computations. With the growing availability of scholarly APIs from open and commercial library databases, supporting access to information via an API has become a key support area for research data services in libraries. This article describes our efforts with supporting API access through the development of an online Scholarly API Cookbook. The Cookbook contains code recipes (i.e., tutorials) for getting started with 10 different scholarly APIs, including for example, Scopus, World Bank, and PubMed. API tutorials are available in Python, Bash, Matlab, and Mathematica. A tutorial for interacting with library catalog data programmatically via Z39.50 is also included, as traditional library catalog metadata is rarely available via an API. In addition to describing the Scholarly API Cookbook content, we discuss our experiences building a student research data services programming team, challenges we encountered, and ideas to improve the Cookbook. The University of Alabama Libraries Scholarly API Cookbook is freely available and hosted on GitHub. All code within the API Cookbook is licensed with the permissive MIT license, and as a result, users are free to reuse and adapt the code in their teaching and research.

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