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Dongo, Tendai; Reed, April H.; O'Hara, Margaret – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2016
Pair programming is a collaborative programming practice that places participants in dyads, working in tandem at one computer to complete programming assignments. Pair programming studies with Computer Science (CS) and Software Engineering (SE) majors have identified benefits such as technical productivity, program/design quality, academic…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Majors (Students), Computer Software, Programming
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Rashkovits, Rami; Lavy, Ilana – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
This study examines how Information Systems Engineering School students on the verge of their graduation understand the mechanism of exception handling. The main contributions of this paper are as follows: we construct a questionnaire aimed at examining students' level of understanding concerning exceptions; we classify and analyse the students'…
Descriptors: Programming, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, College Curriculum
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Du, Jie; Wimmer, Hayden; Rada, Roy – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2016
The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science organized by Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science. This study investigated the impact of the Hour of Code on students' attitudes towards computer programming and their knowledge of programming. A sample of undergraduate students from two…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Programming, Introductory Courses