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VL
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 days ago
Community-Based Scaffolding to Promote End-User Learning
End-user programming provides a unique opportunity to study informal computer science education and knowledge acquisition in the real world. We seek to explore the use of communit...
Brian Dorn
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Event-driven programming facilitates learning standard programming concepts
We have designed a CS 1 course that integrates event-driven programming from the very start. In [2] we argued that event-driven programming is simple enough for CS 1 when introduc...
Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk
ITICSE
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Experiences with teaching design patterns
In this paper, we present an assignment for a course on Design patterns at the masters level, where students have to adapt an existing program to meet additional requirements. We ...
Sylvia Stuurman, Gert Florijn
VL
2006
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
AgentCubes: Raising the Ceiling of End-User Development in Education through Incremental 3D
Now that we have end-user programming environments capable of empowering kids with no programming background to build games in a matter of hours, a new quest for raising the ceili...
Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
ICFP
2010
ACM
13 years 6 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