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ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Engaging students to work with self-assessment questions: a study of two approaches
We explored two approaches for encouraging introductory programming students to use the web-based, selfassessment system, QuizPACK. An "organizational" approach applied ...
Peter Brusilovsky, Sergey A. Sosnovsky
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
KenyaEclipse: learning to program in eclipse
A fundamental part of a Computer Science degree is learning to program. Rather than starting students on a full commercial language, we favour using a dedicated "teaching lan...
Robert Chatley, Thomas Timbul
MSR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Software repository mining with Marmoset: an automated programming project snapshot and testing system
Most computer science educators hold strong opinions about the “right” approach to teaching introductory level programming. Unfortunately, we have comparatively little hard ev...
Jaime Spacco, Jaymie Strecker, David Hovemeyer, Wi...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
137views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
The hidden injuries of overloading 'ADT'
commonly stated definition of abstract data type (ADT) is that it is a domain of values and the operations over that domain. So, for example, a language's built-in types, lik...
Duane Buck, David J. Stucki
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
150views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Backstop: a tool for debugging runtime errors
The errors that Java programmers are likely to encounter can roughly be categorized into three groups: compile-time (semantic and syntactic), logical, and runtime (exceptions). Wh...
Christian Murphy, Eunhee Kim, Gail E. Kaiser, Adam...