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ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
Previous reports of a media computation approach to teaching programming have either focused on pre-CS1 courses or courses for non-majors. We report the adoption of a media comput...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
There are often problems when students enter a course with widely different experience levels with key course topics. If the material is covered too slowly, those with greater exp...
ITICSE
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Prior research on pair programming has found that compared to students who work alone, students who pair have shown increased confidence in their work, greater success in CS1, an...
SIGCSE
1990
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1990
ACM
This paper presents a philosophy underlying CS-1 programming projects, and illustrates this philosophy with a concrete example. Integral to the philosophy is the use of Ada packag...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
We argue that the failure to separate the concerns in CS1 is the leading cause of difficulty in teaching OOP in the first year. We show how the concerns can be detangled and prese...