Despite many initiatives to increase participation in K-12 computer science (CS), only about
half of the public high schools offer CS, and only about a third of the K-8 public schools offer …

The growing need for programming and computational skills has led to a demand for
teaching approaches that can appeal to a broader audience. We explore the design and …

Several studies reported the problem of high attrition and failure rates in computing schools.
Many solutions were proposed and used to overcome these difficulties. The use of serious …

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 …

This thesis presents innovative pedagogical approaches to teach fundamental Computer
Science (CS) concepts, such as abstraction, representation, algorithms, and computation …