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ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Learning styles across the curriculum
Recent research has shown that a student’s learning style – essentially, the way a student approaches and masters new material – can affect student performance in introducto...
A. T. Chamillard, Ricky E. Sward
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Back to basics in CS1 and CS2
This paper describes a significant redesign of the introductory courses at the University of Washington that has led to increased enrollments, increased student satisfaction and a...
Stuart Reges
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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14 years 28 days ago
Closed laboratories with embedded instructional research design for CS1
Closed laboratories are becoming an increasingly popular approach to teaching introductory computer science courses. However, as observed in [1], “Considering the prevalence of ...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Suzette Person, Gwen N...
CAINE
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Scripted Artificially Intelligent Basic Online Tactical Simulation
For many years, introductory Computer Science courses have followed the same teaching paradigms. These paradigms utilize only simple console windows; more interactive approaches t...
Jesse D. Phillips, Roger V. Hoang, Joseph D. Mahsm...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Experience report: CS1 for majors with media computation
Previous reports of a media computation approach to teaching programming have either focused on pre-CS1 courses or courses for non-majors. We report the adoption of a media comput...
Beth Simon, Päivi Kinnunen, Leo Porter, Dov Z...