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On the Quality of Examples in Introductory Java Textbooks
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Borstler, Jurgen; Nordstrom, Marie; Paterson, James H. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
Example programs play an important role in the teaching and learning of programming. Students as well as teachers rank examples as the most important resources for learning to program. Example programs work as role models and must therefore always be consistent with the principles and rules we are teaching. However, it is difficult to find or…
Descriptors: Role Models, Textbooks, Evaluation Methods, Programming