The SIGCSE Technical Symposium is celebrating its 50th year, and a constant theme
throughout this history has been to better understand how novices learn to program. In this …

Lambdas have seen increasing use in mainstream programming languages, notably in Java
8 and C++ 11. While the technical aspects of lambdas are known, we conducted the first …

The discipline of computer science has a long and complicated history with computer
programming languages. Historically, inventors have created language products for a wide …

Approaches for programming language design used commonly in the research community
today center around theoretical and performance-oriented evaluation. Recently, researchers …

Background: Programming language design is not usually informed by empirical studies. In
other fields similar problems have inspired an evidence-based paradigm of practice. Such a …

Indentation is an old technique that emphasizes elements in source code using white
spaces or tabs. But while this technique has been taught and applied for decades, evidence …

In this article, we present a replication of an empirical experiment that evaluates
intuitiveness and comprehensibility of keywords relating to different concepts in …

We outline a thematic history of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group based on a
coding of [~ 400] publications. We highlight the changing interests of the community, draw …

Abstract Afonso, Luiz Marques; de Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius (Advisor). Communicative
Dimensions of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Rio de Janeiro, 2015. 153p …

This special session is for SIGCSE attendees who are interested in K-12 computing
education, especially those who have or are planning to have a NSF CS 10K project. A …