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Hu, Helen H.; Shepherd, Tricia D. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
POGIL has been successfully implemented in a scientific computing course to teach science students how to program in Python. Following POGIL guidelines, the authors have developed guided inquiry activities that lead student teams to discover and understand programming concepts. With each iteration of the scientific computing course, the authors…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Science Instruction
Heiner, Cecily; Zachary, Joseph L. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
Students in introductory programming classes often articulate their questions and information needs incompletely. Consequently, the automatic classification of student questions to provide automated tutorial responses is a challenging problem. This paper analyzes 411 questions from an introductory Java programming course by reducing the natural…
Descriptors: Classification, Questioning Techniques, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education