2003 Proceedings
The 16th Annual
Conference 2003

Prologue 
The conference contains papers in the following areas:
- computing education
- computing practice
- computing research
The theme this year is “New fields, fresh horizons”.
Philosophy
The philosophy of the conference is the encouragement and support of new, emerging and established researchers in a safe environment while encouraging excellence and academic discourse. In keeping with this somewhat eclectic vision, there are several categories of paper.
Full papers are peer refereed on submission by a review panel and accepted/modified/rejected. The editorial panel reviews final versions. They may be rejected or returned for modification at that point. The paper should be a maximum of 4000 words. The acceptance rate for full papers was 48%.
Paper | Speakers | Page No. | |
Intellectual Midwifery: the birth of a research paper | Bob Barbour | 15 | ![]() |
Integrating International Students into Computing Classes: Issues and Strategies | Barbara Chamberlain, Beverley Hope | 21 | ![]() |
NgaIwi o Ngapuhi Membership System: Relationship Management and Relational Design | Radka Charkova, Aimee Lin, Tony Clear, Tess Lomax | 31 | ![]() |
SoDIS SEPIA _ Collaborative Partnerships in Software Engineering Research | Tony Clear, Roger McHaney, Don Gotterbarn | 41 | ![]() |
Agility in the classroom: Using Agile Development Methods to foster team work and adaptability amongst undergraduate programmers . | Sandra Cleland | 49 | ![]() |
Educational value of e-learning in conventional and complementary computing education. | Ken Eustace | 53 | ![]() |
The Trouble with Teaching Programming. | Patricia Haden, Samuel Mann | 63 | ![]() |
Codes of Conduct for Computing Professionals: an International Comparison . | Donald Joyce, Becky Blackshaw, Caroline King, Logan Muller | 71 | ![]() |
Teaching Technology to the Playstation Generation | Paul Kearney, Stephen Skelton | 79 | ![]() |
Putting the P in Programming: The importance of people and process. | Carol Kelly | 85 | ![]() |
RelaxNG with XML Data Structures. | Dave Kennedy | 91 | ![]() |
Using SoDIS for Target Audience Analysis: a Fresh Field Application. | Donald Koh | 103 | ![]() |
An Example of Teaching Journeyman Level Programming: XML Conversion of Course Descriptors. | Mike Lance | 109< | ![]() |
Dancing in the moonlight: The nature and extent of portfolio employment IT academics. | Samuel Mann, Andy Williamson, Russell Hynd | 119 | ![]() |
The UDDI Registry _ A Work in Progress. | Iain Morrison | 125 | ![]() |
2 Classes, 2 Languages, 2 Methodologies and 1 Assignment. | Trevor Nesbit | 135 | ![]() |
Logical Relational Datamodelling through Normalisation by Synthesis. | J.P.Nijsse, R.J.Whiddett, Clare Atkins | 143 | ![]() |
NACCQ Qualifications A Performance Review and Future Developments. | Garry Roberton, Janne Ross | 149 | ![]() |
Use Cases and Traceability: A Marriage for Improved Software Quality. | Robert F. Roggio | 159 | ![]() |
How Safe Is Your Network? : A Guide to Practical Security Solutions. | Hira Sathu, Caroline King | 169 | ![]() |
Images of computers: a prehistory – hopes and fears realised?. | John van Dyk, Samuel Mann, Peter Brook | 177 | ![]() |
Concise papers are reviewed on abstract by a review panel. The completed papers are reviewed by the editorial panel and may be rejected or returned for modification at that point. The paper should be a maximum of 2000 words.
A 915*600mm poster is displayed at the conference along with one page in the proceedings. Research primarily carried out by students is identified an NACCQ Capstone Projects logo.