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Hsu, Wen-Chin; Gainsburg, Julie – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2021
Block-based programming languages (BBLs) have been proposed as a way to prepare students for learning to program in more sophisticated, text-based languages, such as Java. Hybrid BBLs add the ability to view and edit the block commands in auto-generated, text-based code. We compared the use of a non-hybrid BBL (Scratch), a hybrid BBL (Pencil…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
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Beck, Leland; Chizhik, Alexander – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
Cooperative learning is a well-known instructional technique that has been applied with a wide variety of subject matter and a broad spectrum of populations. This article briefly reviews the principles of cooperative learning, and describes how these principles were incorporated into a comprehensive set of cooperative learning activities for a CS1…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages