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ITICSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
ASSISTing CS1 students to learn: learning approaches and object-oriented programming
Identifying and managing students who experience difficulty with learning to program is a challenge for CS educators. In an attempt to answer the familiar question “What makes f...
Janet Hughes, D. Ramanee Peiris
SIGCSE
1998
ACM
131views Education» more  SIGCSE 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
Animation, visualization, and interaction in CS 1 assignments
Programs that use animations or visualizations attract student interest and offer feedback that can enhance different learning styles as students work to master programming and pr...
Owen L. Astrachan, Susan H. Rodger
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
116views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Evaluating a breadth-first cs 1 for scientists
This paper presents a thorough evaluation of CS for Scientists, a CS 1 course designed to provide future scientists with an overview of the discipline. The course takes a breadth-...
Zachary Dodds, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Christine Alva...
SIGCSE
1998
ACM
115views Education» more  SIGCSE 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
Chance-It: an object-oriented capstone project for CS-1
Most people enjoy playing games. Most CS-1 students will enjoy a final project that involves computational game-playing. Chance-It is a simple two-person dice game with many possi...
Joel C. Adams
ITICSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Implementing the jigsaw model in CS1 closed labs
We apply the Jigsaw cooperative learning model to our CS1 closed labs. The Jigsaw cooperative learning model assigns students into main groups in which each group member is respon...
Leen-Kiat Soh