An active learning approach to teaching the data structures course

Budd, Timothy A.

doi:10.1145/1124706.1121388

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“…In [2], Ramon Lawrence applied the idea of competitive programming to motivate students to practice their programming skills in order to gain a better understanding of the concepts. Other interactive means to teach data structure include graphics-based approach [3], active learning approach [4] and active teaching tools [5] which aim to engage students in learning.…”

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Notice of Retraction: Game-based Learning for Data Structures: A case study

Teng

Seng

2010

2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology

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Game-based Learning has always been the trend of tertiary education. It aims to make teaching and learning more interactive and engaging to achieve educational purposes. InTemasek Polytechnic, the course on Data Structures and Algorithms is offered to IT students as a second year subject. As the subject is very abstract in concepts and the algorithms are hard to visualise, it has been noted that students normally find the subject difficult and challenging. In this paper, we present a case study on using a computer game for teaching data structures on stacks and queues. The computer game is developed to help students visualize the data structures and data access operations on stacks and queues. A group of 28 second year IT students is selected to participate in the study. The findings have shown that the students are very positive towards the use of computer games in their learning of data structures. Students have responded that game-based learning is engaging, fun and, more importantly, abstract concepts in data structures can be visualized and learnt through game playing.

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Notice of Retraction: Game-based Learning for Data Structures: A case study

Teng

Seng

2010

2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology

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Pre-programming analysis tutors help students learn basic programming concepts

2008

Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Pre-programming analysis tutors help students learn basic programming concepts

Jinwei

2008

SIGCSE Bull.

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In this paper, we describe a scaffolding technique - pre-programming-analysis guided programming (PAGP) - developed to help students grasp basic programming concepts. Two different ways to implement the PAGP process in a classroom were developed and then compared: one for students to fill out an analysis form, and the other for students to interact with online cognitive tutors. Our results show that the PAGP process helps students learn better and faster, especially with the assistance of the online tutors.

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An active learning approach to teaching the data structures course

Abstract: In this paper, we describe the how active learning techniques have been successfully applied in a CS 2 course.

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Notice of Retraction: Game-based Learning for Data Structures: A case study

Notice of Retraction: Game-based Learning for Data Structures: A case study

Pre-programming analysis tutors help students learn basic programming concepts

Pre-programming analysis tutors help students learn basic programming concepts

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