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1992
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Persistent Program Construction through Browsing and User Gesture with some Typing
Alex Farkas, Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Quin...
SIGPLAN
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Marketing the programming languages course
Programming languages as a required course is disappearing from undergraduate computer science programs. This is not surprising given that the course often proves to be challengin...
Stuart Reges
ACMSE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
BoxScript: a component-oriented language for teaching
As component-oriented approaches become increasingly pervasive in the development of complex software systems, it becomes increasingly important to introduce computing science stu...
Yi Liu, H. Conrad Cunningham
ACE
2003
104views Education» more  ACE 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Language Tug-Of-War: Industry Demand and Academic Choice
This paper seeks to inform instructors responsible for designing introductory programming courses within a university setting. In particular, guidelines for choosing programming l...
Michael de Raadt, Richard Watson, Mark A. Toleman
VL
2003
IEEE
126views Visual Languages» more  VL 2003»
14 years 27 days ago
Preserving non-programmers' motivation with error-prevention and debugging support tools
A significant challenge in teaching programming to disadvantaged populations is preserving learners’ motivation and confidence. Because programming requires such a diverse set o...
Andrew Jensen Ko