One of the largest barriers to learning programming is the precise and complex syntax required to write programs. This barrier is a key impediment to the integration of programmin...
All students attending the U.S. Air Force Academy are required to take an introductory course in computer science. Last year we transitioned to Ada in this course. In this paper w...
The high variability of students’ backgrounds typically found in introductory programming courses creates additional difficulties to foster motivation and ensure the desired co...
In this paper, we propose a framework for the design of learning activities, which follows the key idea of the “Learning-for-Use” model and adopts characteristics from the exp...
Agoritsa Gogoulou, Evangelia Gouli, Maria Grigoria...
"Numerical Computing with MATLAB is a textbook for an introductory course
in numerical methods, Matlab, and technical computing. The emphasis is on informed use of mathematic...