Publications of Troy Vasiga

• 2012
  • (with David Pritchard) CS Circles: An In-Browser Python Course for Beginners SIGCSE 2013, 591-596. Presented at 44th ACM SIGCSE 2013, Denver, Colorado, March 2013.
• 2008
  • Error Detection in Number-Theoretic and Algebraic Algorithms (Ph.D. Thesis. Defended August 2008.)
• 2006
  • (with Graeme Kemkes and Gordon Cormack) Objective Scoring for Computing Competition Tasks Informatics Education -- The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers (International Conference in Informatics in Secondary Schools -- Evolution and Perspectives ISSEP 2006)
  • (with Gordon Cormack, Graeme Kemkes and Ian Munro) Structure, Scoring and Purpose of Computing Competitions, Informatics in Education (5) 1-22.
  • (with Shandy Brown, Narad Rampersad and Jeffrey Shallit) Squares and Overlaps in the Thue-Morse Sequence and Some Variants (PS, PDF) Published in Theoretical Informatics and Applications (40) 473-484.
• 2004
  • (with Shandy Brown, Narad Rampersad and Jeffrey Shallit) Squares and Overlaps in the Thue-Morse Sequence and Some Variants (PS, PDF) Workshop on Word Avoidability, Complexity and Morphisms, ICALP (Int'l Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming), Turku, Finland, July 12-16, 2004.
  • (with Jeffrey Shallit) On the iteration of certain quadratic maps over GF(p) (Submitted versions: PDF, PS. Publication version: PDF, HTML) Discrete Math. (277) 219-240.
• 2002
  • What comes after CS 1+2: A deep breadth before specializing (PDF, PS) SIGCSE Bulletin (34:1), 28-32. Also presented at SIGCSE 2002, Northern Kentucky, March 2002.
• 2001
  • (with S. Furino, and A.C.H. Ling) The spectrum of alpha-resolvable designs with block size four J. Combinatorial Designs (9) 1-16.
• 1998
  • How to test programs (used CS 134) (HTML)
• 1997
  • (with K. Rosen, J. S. Devitt, J. McCarron, E. Murray, E. Roskos) Exploring discrete mathematics with Maple McGraw-Hill.