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Crabtree, John; Zhang, Xihui – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2015
Teaching advanced programming can be a challenge, especially when the students are pursuing different majors with diverse analytical and problem-solving capabilities. The purpose of this paper is to explore the efficacy of using a particular problem as a vehicle for imparting a broad set of programming concepts and problem-solving techniques. We…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Information Technology, Problem Solving
Hernandez, Rebecca R.; Mayernik, Matthew S.; Murphy-Mariscal, Michelle L.; Allen, Michael F. – BioScience, 2012
Environmental scientists are increasing their capitalization on advancements in technology, computation, and data management. However, the extent of that capitalization is unknown. We analyzed the survey responses of 434 graduate students to evaluate the understanding and use of such advances in the environmental sciences. Two-thirds of the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Programming Languages, Graduate Students, Information Science
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Zhang, Xihui – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
Java is an object-oriented programming language. From a software engineering perspective, object-oriented design and programming is used at the architectural design, and structured design and programming is used at the detailed design within methods. As such, structured programming skills are fundamental to more advanced object-oriented…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Programming Languages, Programming