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MSR
2005
ACM
14 years 20 days 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
2010
ACM
169views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Interfaces first (and foremost) with Java
ion is a critical concept that underlies many topics in computing science. For example, in software engineering, the distinction between a component’s behavior and its implement...
Paolo A. G. Sivilotti, Matthew Lang
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 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
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
179views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
14 years 20 days ago
Design patterns for database pedagogy: a proposal
Courses in Relational Databases largely use a domain-specific design approach different from that used in the rest of the curriculum. Use of the Unified Process, UML, and Design P...
Thomas J. Marlowe, Cyril S. Ku, James W. Benham
COMPUTER
2006
84views more  COMPUTER 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Testable, Reusable Units of Cognition
The educational content of a technical topic consists, ultimately, of elementary chunks of knowledge. Identifying and classifying such units -- Testable, Reusable Units of Cogniti...
Bertrand Meyer