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Test-driven design for introductory OO programming
Test-Driven Design (TDD) has been shown to increase the productivity of programming teams and improve the quality of the code they produce. However, most of the introductory
Viera K. Proulx
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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"Georgia computes!": improving the computing education pipeline
Amy Bruckman, Maureen Biggers, Barbara Ericson, To...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Engagement: gaming throughout the curriculum
This paper considers how gaming has been infused into the computing curriculum of institutions in the United States. To increase motivation of students and improve retention, many...
Briana B. Morrison, Jon A. Preston
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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A graphics package for the first day and beyond
We describe cs1graphics, a new Python drawing package designed with pedagogy in mind. The package is simple enough that students can sit down and make use of it from the first day...
Michael H. Goldwasser, David Letscher
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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Increasing engagement in automata theory with JFLAP
We describe the results from a two-year study with fourteen universities on presenting formal languages in a more visual, interactive and applied manner using JFLAP. In our result...
Susan H. Rodger, Eric Wiebe, Kyung Min Lee, Chris ...