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ICFP
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
TeachScheme!: a checkpoint
In 1995, my team and I decided to create an outreach project that would use our research on functional programming to change the K-12 computer science curriculum. We had two diffe...
Matthias Felleisen
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Introducing PyLighter: dynamic code highlighter
Like a screenplay, a program is both a static artifact and instructions for a dynamic performance. This duality can keep laypeople from appreciating the complexity of software sys...
Michael G. Boland, Curtis C. Cliburn
JOT
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
By students, for students: a production-quality multimedia library and its application to game-based teaching
The attractive idea of using game development for teaching programming can only meet student expectations and modern software engineering requirements if it uses advanced multimed...
Till G. Bay, Michela Pedroni, Bertrand Meyer
ITICSE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 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
ICSE
1999
IEEE-ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting Smalltalk Modules in a Customizable Programming Environment
This paper describes how we have extended a module structure of the Smalltalk LearningWorks to provide a programming environment deigned for very large scale technology transfer. ...
Mark Woodman, Robert Griffiths, Malcolm Macgregor,...