Neste estudo são discutidos alguns aspectos relacionados à escolha da primeira linguagem de programação em currículos de ciência da computação, com interesse especial em Pascal e Java. A primeira linguagem é amplamente adotada para ensinar programação aos novatos, enquanto a segunda está ganhando popularidade como uma linguagem moderna e abrangente, que pode ser usada em muitas disicplinas ao longo de um curso degraduação em computação como ferramenta para ensinar desde recursos básicos de programação até tópicos mais avançados. Embora vários problemas quanto ao ensino de Java, com a primeira linguagem de programação, possam ser apontadas, consideramosque Java é uma boa escolha, visto que (a) oferece apoio a importantes questões conceituais e tecnológicos e, (b) é possível contornar algumas complexidades da linguagem e da plataforma Java para torná-las mais adequadas à alunos iniciantes. Além disso, considerando a grande popularidade de Pascal nos currículos de cursos de computação, uma eventual adoção de Java conduz à outro problema: a falta de professores aptos a lecionar programação orientada a objetos. Sugerimos que este problema de migração de Pascal para Java seja enfrentado através de smplificação do ambiente de desenvolvimento de programas, uso de um pacote com classes que facilitam a entrada e saída, e o desenvolvimento de um catálogo comparativo de programas implementados em ambas as linguagens. Neste estudo também é apresentado o JEduc, um IDE muito simples com o objetivo de dar suporte ao ensino da linguagem de programação orientada a objetos Java aos novatos. Oferece componentes desenvolvidos em Java que integram edição, compilação e execução de programas Java. Além das funcionalidades comuns a um IDE, JEduc foi desenvolvido para gir como uma ferramente pedagógica: simplifica a maioria das mensagens do compilador e erros da JRE, permite a inserção de esqueletos de comandos, e incorpora pacotes especiais para esconder alguns detalhes sintáticos e semânticos indesejáveis.

Estágio realizado na Software Product Assurance Manager da Critical Software, S.A / Tese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Informática e Computação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2009

Very often when we are looking to buy new IT equipment in an online store, we face the problem that certain parts of our order are not compatible with others or sometimes one part needs additional components. From another point of view in this process, when an online store owner wants to manage the products available in stock, assign prices, set conditions to make an order, or manage customer information, he or she must often rely on information from different systems, physical files, or other sources. EpicConfigurator simplifies and solves the issues mentioned above. EpicConfigurator makes it easy for User Customers to configure computer products by making the process of product selection more straightforward. It can actively gather customer requirements and map them to a set of products and service options. These capabilities will guide users towards an optimal solution for their needs. EpicConfigurator also allows User Customers to keep track and edit saved product configurations. This system also includes a user administrator perspective that allows Store Owners to act as User Admins helping them to manage and load new products, set configuration rules for products and manage all users. Following open source technologies, EpicConfigurator is an application easy to enhance, expand and integrate with newer technologies. This is a configurator tool and does not provide any purchasing feature. To purchase, the configuration results should be provided to the local reseller or sales representative to get an official quote.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 444-460). A study based on a case study with integrated macro and micro approaches to investigate some effects of the development and industrialisation processes in Indonesia.

This study is a longitudinal descriptive study conducted in eight villages of Banten province, Indonesia. The research describes the nutritional status of two groups of pregnant village women and investigates the implementation and impact of an intervention to improve nutrition in pregnancy. The intervention aimed to improve the effectiveness of village midwives and cadres by improving the nutrition of pregnant women, particularly iron deficiency, through the use of a community development approach. The thesis identifies the importance of good nutrition during pregnancy and some of the factors, which influence it in the context of this study. It examines the health promotion programs for improving iron intake and nutrition in developing countries and specifically examines the programs that are used in Indonesia. A small decrease in the rate of anaemia appears to have occurred due to these programs, but the anaemia rate remains high. There has been little systematic examination of the cultural and social factors that may influence nutrition in pregnant women in Indonesia and few studies, which have measured the nutritional status of pregnant women. The goals of the study are to: * Describe the social and cultural factors that influence nutrition, under nutrition and iron deficiency anaemia during pregnancy and to measure the nutritional status of rural women in Banten Province, Indonesia. * Improve the knowledge and skills of village midwives and cadres in using community development and effective communication to improve iron supplementation and nutrition. The conceptual framework for the study was derived from principles of health promotion, in particular the 'Proceed and Proceed' model (Green & Kreuter 1991). The study took place in eight villages in Banten province, Indonesia. Four of the villages received a community development intervention and four villages were used for comparison. The study was undertaken in three stages: Stage 1 - Baseline Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collection; Stage 2 - Intervention; and Stage 3 - Follow Up Evaluation. The intervention was guided by the results of Stage 1 and consisted of a two-day workshop aimed to improve their knowledge, communication skills of the midwives and cadres and their ability to use a community development approach to improving nutrition in the villages. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the research at Stage 1 and Stage 3. Ethnographic methods of interview, observation, field notes and survey were used to collect information about the cultural and social factors that influence nutrition and nutritional practices during pregnancy. The knowledge and practices of midwives and cadres were also explored. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Forty pregnant women (20 from the intervention villages and 20 from the comparison villages) participated in the qualitative component of the research before the intervention (Stage 1). The follow up evaluation occurred 12 months later, and a different group of 35 pregnant women (20 from the intervention villages and 15 from the comparison villages) participated in the qualitative component of the research at Stage 3. The same eight midwives and 16 cadres participated in the qualitative research at Stage 1 and Stage 3. Quantitative data collected at Stage 1 and Stage 3 included socio demographic data, obstetric information and nutritional data (haemoglobin level, body mass index, and the weight gain of pregnant women). Data was collected from 210 women before the intervention and 189 women after the intervention. Some changes in the practices of midwives and cadres were apparent after the intervention with midwives building better rapport, communicating more effectively and providing more information and support to pregnant women. Cadres also talked more about nutrition in community meetings. Changes in the behaviour and approach of village midwives and cadres' in relation to nutrition education resulted in improved nutritional behaviour of pregnant women to some extent, but poverty and culture restricted the ability of pregnant women to access better food. The intervention did not effect the overall nutritional status of the pregnant women. Because of time and logistical constraints, the intervention was not able to influence the community's health in the medium term in the intervention villages. The results of this study showed that the comparison villages sometimes had better results than the intervention villages. A possible explanation is that the systematic evaluation of nutritional status may have increased the awareness and practice of the better-educated and more knowledgeable midwives who were located in the comparison villages. The comparison midwives had a better basic education in midwifery when compared to the intervention midwives. It appeared these better-educated workers responded positively to the research even without exposure to the intervention. The study showed that the position of the pregnant woman is low within the hierarchy of both the health care system and the power structures of the broader community. Husbands, mother-in-law, village midwives, cadres and village leaders all have more power to determine what pregnant women can and cannot eat and drink than women do themselves. However, some women tried to access better food after the intervention by subverting culture and the authority of husbands and mother-in-law and eating nutritious food in secret.

Master of Philosophy / This thesis 'maps' aspects of contemporary Indonesian language poetry and associational life related to that poetry from the Indonesian province of West Java, particularly, but not exclusively, in the period after 1998.

Zugl.: Wien, Techn. Univ., Diplomarbeit, 2005

<p>MindMe is an aid for people with cognitive memory impairments. The aid is completely new and has been</p><p>developed within this bachelor thesis, no product of this nature could be found on the market before. The</p><p>idea came from Niclas Jarhäll, CEO of Mutual Benefits. Mutual Benefits were also partners in the project.</p><p>The project was carried out by us in cooperation with Bachelor of Science in Innovation Engineering</p><p>students Malin Albertsson and Victoria Hedman at Halmstad university. The aid consists of a mobile phone</p><p>and a number of tags. The goal was for the mobile phone and tag to set of their alarms when they get a</p><p>certain distance apart.</p><p>It is the technical part of the project that will be discussed in this paper and it was divided in two parts,</p><p>prototype development and software for the mobile phone.</p><p>The project resulted in a prototype and an application for the mobile phone. The prototype and mobile phone</p><p>set of their alarms when they come to far apart. The user has the option to change settings in the mobile</p><p>phone application that affects both phone and tag and to add/remove tags. Both application and tag meet the</p><p>requirements set in the technical specification.</p>

<p>This report describes and evaluates an application development framework called DOI, which is used for building document-oriented applications. A document-oriented application is an application where the user interface promotes a workflow that is tightly coupled to the business objects, instead of for example the functionality (as is the case in function-oriented applications).</p><p>The report provides a brief description of the underlying technologies, Java and Enterprise JavaBeans, followed by a description of the DOI framework. This entails technical descriptions as well as a more general overview of the framework and associated tools. There is also a more detailed description of how to create an application provided in an appendix.</p><p>In the evaluation phase we consider the following attributes: usability, extensibility, code quality and developing time. After taking into consideration how the different parts of the framework affect these attributes we conclude that DOI is a usable and extensible framework, which should contribute a great deal in the development process for applications belonging to the domain of applications targeted by the framework.</p>