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IIE
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Visualize and Open Up
Motivating students of the Nintendo generation for Computer Science can only be achieved by providing them with an exiting and fresh CS1 course. The article describes the experienc...
Michela Pedroni, Till G. Bay
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Event-driven programming facilitates learning standard programming concepts
We have designed a CS 1 course that integrates event-driven programming from the very start. In [2] we argued that event-driven programming is simple enough for CS 1 when introduc...
Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
myPyramid: increasing nutritional awareness
A major challenge that new college students face is the establishment of healthy habits that will affect their long-term health. Focusing on this difficult task is myPyramid: a di...
Eunhyung Kim, Benjamin Koh, Jennifer Ng, Ray Su
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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14 years 23 days ago
Using software testing to move students from trial-and-error to reflection-in-action
Introductory computer science students rely on a trial and error approach to fixing errors and debugging for too long. Moving to a reflection in action strategy can help students ...
Stephen H. Edwards
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
The summer academy for advancing deaf and hard of hearing in computing
Deaf and hard of hearing students are an underrepresented group in computing and face extra challenges in university-level computing courses. This paper describes a 9-week Summer ...
Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Robert I. Roth