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Canedo, Edna Dias; Santos, Giovanni Almeida; Leite, Leticia Lopes – Informatics in Education, 2018
The teaching-learning methodology adopted in the Introduction to Computer Science classes may be a process that makes it difficult to understand the principles of programming language for undergraduate students in Computer Science and related areas, generating high failure and course drop out rates. This paper presents an analysis of the results…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Programming, Programming Languages
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Ramos, Vinicius F. C.; Cechinel, Cristian; Magé, Larissa; Lemos, Robson – Informatics in Education, 2021
Teaching introductory computer programming and choosing the proper tools and programming languages are challenging tasks. Most of the existing tools are not fully integrated into systems to support the teaching-learning processes. The present paper describes the usability evaluation of the Virtual Programming Lab module for Moodle (VPL-Moodle)…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, Usability, Computer Interfaces
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Fonseca, Samuel C.; Pereira, Filipe Dwan; Oliveira, Elaine H. T.; Oliveira, David B. F.; Carvalho, Leandro S. G.; Cristea, Alexandra I. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
As programming must be learned by doing, introductory programming course learners need to solve many problems, e.g., on systems such as 'Online Judges'. However, as such courses are often compulsory for non-Computer Science (nonCS) undergraduates, this may cause difficulties to learners that do not have the typical intrinsic motivation for…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education, Automation
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Wainer, Jacques; Xavier, Eduardo C. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2018
We performed a controlled experiment comparing a C and a Python Introductory Programming course. Three faculty members at University of Campinas, Brazil, taught the same CS1 course for the same majors in two different semesters, one version in Python and one in C, with a total of 391 students involved in the experiment. We measured the dropout…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses, Programming
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de Oliveira Costa Machado, Marcelo; Barrére, Eduardo; Souza, Jairo – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2019
Adaptive curriculum sequencing (ACS) is still a challenge in the adaptive learning field. ACS is a NP-hard problem especially considering the several constraints of the student and the learning material when selecting a sequence from repositories where several sequences could be chosen. Therefore, this has stimulated several researchers to use…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Mathematics, Problem Solving
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de Aquino Leal, Alexis Vinícius; Ferreira, Deller James – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2016
There is still no pedagogy to teach programming that stands out significantly from others and no consensus on what is the best way for learning programming. There is still a need to develop new teaching methods for learning in introductory programming courses. This paper presents a pedagogic approach in support of creativity in programming and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Ferreira, Deller James; da Silva, Hebert Coelho; Melo, Tatiane F. N.; Ambrósio, Ana Paula – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Teachers usually expect that any form of a continuous assessment (CA) should contribute significantly to the student learning process in introductory programming courses. To foster teachers to go beyond the current practices of a CA applied when to programming, from 2011 to 2014, we investigated the use of the Boca Online Contest Administrator…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Programming, Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship
de Oliveira, Clara Amelia – 1998
This paper presents an overview of the fundamental characteristics of the teaching and learning environment of a computer language class course designed for college-level engineering and computer science education. Characteristics include training teachers, student evaluation, learning environment, and integrating disciplines. (Contains 16…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Curriculum Development, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers