Many teachers experience serious problems when teaching object-orientation to beginners
or professionals. Many of these problems could be overcome or reduced through the use of …

Learning a craft like programming is efficient when novices learn from people who already
master the craft. In this paper we define Extreme Apprenticeship, an extension to the …

Background In May 2016 the Royal Society announced it was commissioning a study1,
funded by Google and Microsoft, to understand the challenges faced by educators delivering …

One of the most important goals of an introductory programming course is that the students
learn a systematic approach to the development of computer programs. Revealing the …

Previous research suggests that" Explain in Plain English"(EiPE) code reading activities
could play an important role in the development of novice programmers, but EiPE questions …

Mechanism design (MD) provides a useful method to implement outcomes with desirable
properties in systems with self-interested computational agents. One drawback, however, is …

The academic discipline of computer science uniquely prepares students for future study by
teaching the fundamental construct of its practice-programming-before anything else. The …

For50years, wehavebeenteachingprogramming. Inthattime, wehaveseen-mentouschanges.
Fromteachinga? rstcourseusinganassemblylanguageorF-tran I to using sophisticated …

The field of software patterns has seen an explosion in interest in the last three years. Work
to date has been on the recognition, cataloging, and finding of patterns with little attention to …

This paper discusses the application of constructivist pedagogical approaches to teaching
computer programming in high school and undergraduate courses. It provides an overview …