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SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Design guidelines for the lab component of objects-first CS1
We adopt the view that CS1 labs are not programming assignments, and that they should not be used for grading students or assessing their level of understanding. Instead, we think...
Hamzeh Roumani
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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14 years 23 days ago
CFX: finding just the right examples for CS1
Finding just the right example to answer a question can be difficult for CS1 students and teachers. For this to work well there must be an intuitive interface coupled to an approp...
Dale Reed, Sam John, Ryan Aviles, Feihong Hsu
FECS
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Pair Programming: Not for Everyone?
- Developments in CS1 pedagogy seek to improve the capabilities of students in their understanding of how to write programs. This involves learning how to solve various types of pr...
Jacob P. Somervell
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Personalizing CS1 with robots
We have developed a CS1 curriculum that uses a robotics context to teach introductory programming [1]. Core to our approach is that each student has their own personal robot. Our ...
Jay Summet, Deepak Kumar, Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel ...
SIGCSE
1998
ACM
125views Education» more  SIGCSE 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Providing intellectual focus to CS1/CS2
First-year computer science students need to see clearly that computer science as a discipline has an important intellectual role to play and that it offers deep philosophical que...
Timothy J. Long, Bruce W. Weide, Paolo Bucci, Davi...