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RecurTutor: An Interactive Tutorial for Learning Recursion
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Hamouda, Sally; Edwards, Stephen H.; Elmongui, Hicham G.; Ernst, Jeremy V.; Shaffer, Clifford A. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
Recursion is one of the most important and hardest topics in lower division computer science courses. As it is an advanced programming skill, the best way to learn it is through targeted practice exercises. But the best practice problems are time consuming to manually grade by an instructor. As a consequence, students historically have completed…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Instructional Effectiveness, Difficulty Level