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Computational complexity analysis plays an essential part in the education of computer and software engineers. For that reason, it is carefully studied in programming courses, as well as in the algorithms and data structures courses. The number of students who learn programming is rapidly growing, but the number of teachers cannot keep up with that trend. Therefore, it is necessary to develop tools that can ease and accelerate the daily tasks of teachers, especially for learning purposes and in the context of automating the processes of exam preparation. We propose a novel template- and rule-based approach and a corresponding software system for assembling synthetic source code segments of defined time complexity. Based on the developed grammar, the system can produce source code segments with a broad scope of different time complexities while guaranteeing the complexity of the generated segment. The system can be used for generating questions for exams as it can assemble a large number of different code segments that can be given as questions that have similar difficulty levels. The system was evaluated both by human experts and ChatGPT tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A selection of Computer Science, Informatics or similar study programs for academic studies evidently becomes an emerging choice of a vast number of students in recent years. To address some of the open questions, we performed an empirical study based on a survey, with a goal to find out the main motivating factors directing students to select computer science, informatics or similar programs for studying in a much greater extent. The survey was conducted on a sample of 1517 students from five well established, and most traditional faculties of computer science and informatics at three largest university cities in Serbia: Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Niš. The created sample is representative enough to illustrate the current situation and trends common for many similar societies. Our first analysis shows that the main motivating factor to select computer science or informatics study program at all faculties is the students' motivation to study just that topic, while at management faculty it is significantly less important. However, we also noticed that significant number of students wished to study something else but chose computer science and informatics due to possibility of finding jobs easier and of earning higher salaries in industry. The most important influential factors to choose a computer science or informatics major come from family members, and close relatives. The perceived brand and reputation of a faculty also plays a significant role. Students being examined prevalently tend to be satisfied with the faculty they have chosen. However, many of them see themselves leaving the country in a near or far future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the development of Cifarski Elektronski Računar - Digital Electronic Computer (CER-10), the first digital electronic computer built in Serbia in 1960. It states that CER-10 was made of a vacuum tube, relays, and transistor based computer designed by professors Rajko Tomović and Tihomir Aleksić. Furthermore, Institute Mihajlo Pupin has developed other version of CER computers including CER-11, CER-12, CER-22, and CER-200.