Giraldeau, F., & Dagenais, M. R., & Boucheneb, H. (2014, June), Teaching Operating Systems Concepts with Execution Visualization  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--23101

\bibitem{asee_peer_23101}
  Giraldeau, F., \& Dagenais, M. R., \& Boucheneb, H. (2014, June), \emph{Teaching Operating Systems Concepts with Execution Visualization}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--23101

Francis Giraldeau, Michel R. Dagenais, and Hanifa Boucheneb.  "Teaching Operating Systems Concepts with Execution Visualization".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/23101 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_23101}
  Francis Giraldeau, Michel R. Dagenais, and Hanifa Boucheneb.
  "Teaching Operating Systems Concepts with Execution Visualization".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/23101 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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