As computing becomes a mainstream discipline embedded in the school curriculum and
acts as an enabler for an increasing range of academic disciplines in higher education, the …

Computer science educators are increasingly using interactive learning content to enrich
and enhance the pedagogy of their courses. A plethora of such learning content, specifically …

Unit test-driven development (UTDD) is a software development practice where unit test
cases are specified iteratively and incrementally before production code. In the last years …

Several studies suggest that the teaching of software testing should begin as early as
possible, since introductory programming courses. In this way, the teaching of both subjects …

There is a growing interest of the Computer Science education community for including
testing concepts on introductory programming courses. Aiming at contributing to this issue …

WebIDE is a framework that enables instructors to develop and deliver online lab content
with interactive feedback. The ability to create lock-step labs enables the instructor to guide …

The failure rates in introductory programming courses still shows that there is a continuous
need in research to investigate and propose new methods and techniques of teaching …

Students usually have difficulties assimilating basic contents of introductory programming
disciplines. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an interesting approach to address this issue …

In this dissertation, I explored the pedagogical content knowledge of in-service high school
educators recently assigned to teach computer science for the first time. Teachers were …

While cloud-and web-based Integrated Development Environments (IDE) are used in
practice and education for some time, these are mainly intended for classical web …