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ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Teaching programming and language concepts using LEGOs
concepts more concrete. The method has two main learning outcomes: • Language Specification – The goal of the assignment is to be able to build LEGO® creations on a standard g...
Cynthia S. Hood, Dennis J. Hood
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Answering why and why not questions in user interfaces
Modern applications such as Microsoft Word have many automatic features and hidden dependencies that are frequently helpful but can be mysterious to both novice and expert users. ...
Brad A. Myers, David A. Weitzman, Andrew Jensen Ko...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
PL-detective: a system for teaching programming language concepts
The educational literature recognizes that people go through a number of stages in their intellectual development. During the first stage, called received knowledge or dualism, p...
Amer Diwan, William M. Waite, Michele H. Jackson
ICCS
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Comparison of C, MATLAB, and Python as Teaching Languages in Engineering
We describe and compare the programming languages C, MATLAB and Python as teaching languages for engineering students. We distinguish between two distinct phases in the process of ...
Hans Fangohr