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ITICSE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The complexity of languages like Java and C++ can make introductory programming classes in these languages extremely challenging for many students. Part of the complexity comes fr...
ACSE
1997
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1997
ACM
One of the major difficulties with teaching the first programming course is input/output. It is desirable to show students how to input data and output results early in the course...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
13 years 4 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...
SIGCSE
1997
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1997
ACM
One of the major difficulties facing anyone trying to teach the first programming course is how to encourage students to thoroughly test their programs. We would argue that the ma...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
Functional verification is widely acknowledged as a major bottleneck in microprocessor design. While early work on specification driven functional test program generation has prop...