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APVIS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Experimental Evaluation of a Program Visualisation Tool for Use in Computer Science Education
This paper presents an experimental evaluation of a program visualisation tool. Computer science students in an introductory object oriented programming course in Java were asked ...
Kathryn Kasmarik, Joe Thurbon
SIGCSE
2000
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Object-orientation in Java for scientific programmers
Scientific programmers have traditionally programmed in entirely sequential languages such as Fortran, C or Pascal and it could be argued that object-orientation is not a concept ...
Judith Bishop, Nigel Bishop
ACE
2004
207views Education» more  ACE 2004»
13 years 8 months ago
Teaching Java First: Experiments with a Pigs-Early Pedagogy
This paper introduces PigWorld, a tool for teaching Java to novice programmers, via the objects-early style. Three design guidelines forobject-early assignments are discussed: (1)...
Raymond Lister
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
150views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 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...
IPSN
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Archetype-based design: Sensor network programming for application experts, not just programming experts
Sensor network application experts such as biologists, geologists, and environmental engineers generally have little experience with, and little patience for, general-purpose and ...
Lan S. Bai, Robert P. Dick, Peter A. Dinda