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ICFP
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Experience report: growing programming languages for beginning students
A student learning how to program learns best when the programming language and programming environment cater to her specific needs. These needs are different from the requirement...
Marcus Crestani, Michael Sperber
JOT
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
By students, for students: a production-quality multimedia library and its application to game-based teaching
The attractive idea of using game development for teaching programming can only meet student expectations and modern software engineering requirements if it uses advanced multimed...
Till G. Bay, Michela Pedroni, Bertrand Meyer
ITICSE
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Using interactive technology in a short java course: an experience report
Keeping students alert and responsive during lectures is a challenge even for experienced teachers in small group settings. Research has shown the importance of student participat...
Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Morrie Schulman
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Engagement: gaming throughout the curriculum
This paper considers how gaming has been infused into the computing curriculum of institutions in the United States. To increase motivation of students and improve retention, many...
Briana B. Morrison, Jon A. Preston
LISP
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Visualizing Evaluation in Scheme
Abstract. RainbowScheme is a visual stepping system that presents Scheme program’s runtime state using icons, colored environment trees, and colored Scheme code. A Scheme program...
Sho-Huan Simon Tung