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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE-ACM
In October 2004 the University of Lugano in southern Switzerland established a new faculty of informatics. Its founding principles are innovation in teaching and faculty participa...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 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...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
A fundamental part of a Computer Science degree is learning to program. Rather than starting students on a full commercial language, we favour using a dedicated "teaching lan...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...