ICT Education : 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2017, Magaliesburg, South Africa, July 3-5, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association on ICT Education, SACLA 2017, held in Magaliesburg, South Africa, in July 2017. The 22 revised full papers presented together with an extended abstract of a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ICT students of a new generation; technology and gaming in nowadays education; educational cooperation with the ICT industry; computer programming education; ICT courses and curricula Front Matter ....Pages I-XIV Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The iGeneration as Students: Exploring the Relative Access, Use of, and Perceptions of IT in Higher Education (Anwar Parker, Jean-Paul van Belle)....Pages 3-18 A New Generation of Students: Digital Media in Academic Contexts (Daniel B. le Roux, Douglas A. Parry)....Pages 19-36 Students’ Learning Approaches: Are They Changing? (Estelle Taylor, Kobus van Aswegen)....Pages 37-47 The Effect of Using YouTube in the Classroom for Student Engagement of the Net Generation on an Information Systems Course (Sumarie Roodt, Nitesh Harry, Samwel Mwapwele)....Pages 48-63 Front Matter ....Pages 65-65 Mobile and Game Usage, Gender and Attitude Towards Computing Degrees (Eleftherios A. Nicolau, Lisa F. Seymour)....Pages 67-82 Questioning the Value of Vodcasts in a Distance Learning Theoretical Computer Science Course (Colin Pilkington)....Pages 83-98 Regex Parser II: Teaching Regular Expression Fundamentals via Educational Gaming (Ariel Rosenfeld, Abejide Ade-Ibijola, Sigrid Ewert)....Pages 99-112 Keeping ICT in Education Community Engagement Relevant: Infinite Possibilities? (Leila Goosen, Ronell van der Merwe)....Pages 113-127 Augmenting a Data Warehousing Curriculum with Emerging Big Data Technologies (Eduan Kotzé)....Pages 128-143 Front Matter ....Pages 145-145 Information Systems as Creative Products: What Are Industry’s Expectations? (Anine Kruger, Machdel Matthee, Marita Turpin)....Pages 147-161 A Critical Systems Perspective on Project-Based Learning: Guidelines for Using Industry Data for BI Student Projects (Roelien Goede)....Pages 162-174 A Survey of Data Scientists in South Africa (Eduan Kotzé)....Pages 175-191 Industry versus Post-graduate Studies: CS and IS Alumni Perceptions (André P. Calitz, Jean H. Greyling, Margaret Cullen)....Pages 192-205 Front Matter ....Pages 207-207 Problem Solving as a Predictor of Programming Performance (Glenda Barlow-Jones, Duan van der Westhuizen)....Pages 209-216 Pre-entry Attributes Thought to Influence the Performance of Students in Computer Programming (Glenda Barlow-Jones, Duan van der Westhuizen)....Pages 217-226 Programming: A Wicked Subject? (Apostolos P. Giannakopoulos)....Pages 227-240 Testing Test-Driven Development (Hussein Suleman, Stephan Jamieson, Maria Keet)....Pages 241-248 Front Matter ....Pages 249-249 Factors Influencing Poor Performance in Systems Analysis and Design: Student Reflections (Henk W. Pretorius, Marie J. Hattingh)....Pages 251-264 Cheap Latex, High-End Thrills: A Fantasy Exercise in Search and Seizure (Wai Sze Leung)....Pages 265-277 The Infinity Approach: A Case Study (Romeo Botes, Imelda Smit)....Pages 278-292 Mapping a Design Science Research Cycle to the Postgraduate Research Report (Alta van der Merwe, Aurona Gerber, Hanlie Smuts)....Pages 293-308 A Topic-Level Comparison of the ACM/IEEE CS Curriculum Volumes (Linda Marshall)....Pages 309-324 Back Matter ....Pages 325-325