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CSEE
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Pex4Fun: Teaching and learning computer science via social gaming
Pex4Fun (http://www.pexforfun.com/)from Microsoft Research is a web-based serious gaming environment for teaching computer science. Pex4Fun can be used to teach and learn computer...
Nikolai Tillmann, Jonathan de Halleux, Tao Xie
ITICSE
2003
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Teaching programming to liberal arts students: a narrative media approach
In this paper we present a new learning environment to be used in an introductory programming course for students that are non-majors in computer science, more precisely for multi...
Peter Bøgh Andersen, Jens Bennedsen, Steffe...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Compiler error messages: what can help novices?
Novices find it difficult to understand and use compiler error messages. It is useful to refine this observation and study the effect of different message styles on how well and q...
Marie-Hélène Nienaltowski, Michela P...
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
2005
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Iconic programming for flowcharts, java, turing, etc
One of the largest barriers to learning programming is the precise and complex syntax required to write programs. This barrier is a key impediment to the integration of programmin...
Stephen Chen, Stephen Morris