Programming is a complex task that requires the development of many skills including
knowledge of syntax, problem decomposition, algorithm development, and debugging …

In their quest on being effective, educators have always experimented with the art of
teaching. Teaching has evolved over centuries by adopting new approaches, methods …

Program visualizations help to form useful mental models of how programs work, and to
reason and debug code. But these visualizations exist at a fixed level of abstraction, eg, line …

Abstract The OpenDSA Project seeks to provide complete instructional materials for data
structures and algorithms (DSA) courses. Our vision for a highly interactive eTextbook …

The Runestone platform is open-source, extensible, and serves free ebooks to over 25,000
learners a day from around the world. The site hosts 18 ebooks for computing courses …

We present empirical findings from using an interactive electronic textbook (eTextbook)
system named OpenDSA to teach sophomore-and junior-level Computer Science courses …

Learning abstract concepts in data structures and algorithms (DSA) courses is often difficult
for students. To improve understanding of DSA topics, numerous algorithm visualization …

Data Structures and Algorithms are a central part of Computer Science. Due to their abstract
and dynamic nature, they are a difficult topic to learn for many students. To alleviate these …

Computerisation and digitalisation are shaping the world in fundamental and unpredictable
ways, which highlights the importance of computing education research (CER). As part of …

Small automatically assessed programming assignments are an often used resource for
learning programming. Creating sufficiently large amounts of such assignments is, however …