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OOPSLA
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months 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
FDG
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Questioning video games' influence on CS interest
In this paper, we examine the relationship between digital games and interest in computer science. When we undertook this research, our goal was to expand upon past work that expl...
Betsy James DiSalvo, Amy Bruckman
FECS
2008
185views Education» more  FECS 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Will There Ever Be Consensus on CS1?
- The choice of programming language, the approach by which students are taught and the software tools made available to students have been controversial issues in many ways. While...
Robert M. Siegfried, David Chays, Katherine Herber...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
110views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
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 ...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring Human Visualization of Computer Algorithms
Many educators have used Algorithm Visualization (AV) to teach students of computer science about how computer algorithms work. Our study sheds light on two important questions: (...
Sarah A. Douglas, Christopher D. Hundhausen, Donna...