SIGCSE
2002
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2002
ACM
This paper reports on the implication of different preferred learning styles on students'performance in the introductory programming sequence and on work in progress on how t...
ACE
2003
14 years 25 days ago
2003
This paper seeks to inform instructors responsible for designing introductory programming courses within a university setting. In particular, guidelines for choosing programming l...
FECS
2008
14 years 27 days ago
2008
- The choice of programming language, the approach by which students are taught and the software tools made available to students have been controversial issues in many ways. While...
SIGCSE
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1994
ACM
An experiment in collaborative learning was conducted in two introductory programming courses at Loyola College in Maryland. Data collected included background information on stud...
ITICSE
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2003
ACM
Computing may well become considered an essential part of a liberal education, but introductory programming courses will not look like the way that they do today. Current CS1 cour...
ICALT
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a framework for the design of learning activities, which follows the key idea of the “Learning-for-Use” model and adopts characteristics from the exp...
ECLIPSE
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2004
ACM
Much research has been done on techniques to teach students how to program. However, it is usually difficult to quantify exactly how students work. Instructors typically only see ...
ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
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...