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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
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
212views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Using peer-led team learning to increase participation and success of under-represented groups in introductory computer science
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a program that uses active recruiting and peer-led team learning to try to increase the participation and success of wome...
Susan Horwitz, Susan H. Rodger, Maureen Biggers, D...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
88views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch
This paper describes Scratch, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers. We report on the Scratch programming exp...
John H. Maloney, Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai...
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A B.S. degree in informatics: contextualizing software engineering education
Software engineering (SE) is very different in focus from traditional computer science: it is not just about computers and software, but as much about the context in which they ar...
André van der Hoek, David G. Kay, Debra J. ...
SIGCSE
1994
ACM
172views Education» more  SIGCSE 1994»
14 years 15 hour ago
Collaborative learning in an introductory computer science course
An experiment in collaborative learning was conducted in two introductory programming courses at Loyola College in Maryland. Data collected included background information on stud...
Roberta Evans Sabin, Edward P. Sabin