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SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts
Research on learning suggests the importance of helping students organize their knowledge around meaningful patterns of information. This paper reports on a multi-institutional st...
Laurie Murphy, Renée McCauley, Suzanne West...
ACMSE
2005
ACM
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Towards a "humans-first" computer science curriculum
Traditionally, computer science education has considered “objects-first” or “imperative-first” approaches, with the focus of the course on teaching design of programs star...
D. Scott McCrickard, Charles J. Fowler, Christa M....
SIGADA
2007
Springer
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Using SPARK for a beginner's course on reasoning about imperative programs
Teaching beginners predicate transformer semantics for imperative languages is not a trivial task. For Computer Science majors, the teaching of the theoretical material must be su...
Kung-Kiu Lau