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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Test-driven learning in early programming courses
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
David Janzen, Hossein Saiedian
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DGO
2003
111views Education» more  DGO 2003»
15 years 7 months ago
Digital Citizenship: Parameters of the Digital Divide
As part of a National Science Foundation-funded study, we analyze data from a 2002 Midwest urban random sample survey (n = 167 adults) of differential access to and uses of comput...
Stuart W. Shulman, Mack C. Shelley, Lisa Thrane
VL
2007
IEEE
166views Visual Languages» more  VL 2007»
16 years 12 days ago
Community-Based Scaffolding to Promote End-User Learning
End-user programming provides a unique opportunity to study informal computer science education and knowledge acquisition in the real world. We seek to explore the use of communit...
Brian Dorn
TEI
2009
ACM
103views Hardware» more  TEI 2009»
16 years 28 days ago
A tangible construction kit for exploring graph theory
Graphs are a versatile representation of many systems in computer science, the social sciences, and mathematics, but graph theory is not taught in schools. We present our work on ...
Eric Schweikardt, Nwanua Elumeze, Michael Eisenber...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
Student activity in seminars: designing multi-functional assessment events
In this paper, we describe assessment in seminars where high student activity is encouraged. The aim of our work has been to design assessment events that result in deep learning ...
Karin Axelsson, Ulf Melin, Tommy Wedlund