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Fonseca, Samuel C.; Pereira, Filipe Dwan; Oliveira, Elaine H. T.; Oliveira, David B. F.; Carvalho, Leandro S. G.; Cristea, Alexandra I. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
As programming must be learned by doing, introductory programming course learners need to solve many problems, e.g., on systems such as 'Online Judges'. However, as such courses are often compulsory for non-Computer Science (nonCS) undergraduates, this may cause difficulties to learners that do not have the typical intrinsic motivation for…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education, Automation
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Wainer, Jacques; Xavier, Eduardo C. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2018
We performed a controlled experiment comparing a C and a Python Introductory Programming course. Three faculty members at University of Campinas, Brazil, taught the same CS1 course for the same majors in two different semesters, one version in Python and one in C, with a total of 391 students involved in the experiment. We measured the dropout…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses, Programming
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory