Introductory Computing: The Design Discipline

Proulx, Viera K.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24722-4_16

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“…Since the fixture is optional, it would be possible to write a suite comprised only of independent tests (perhaps in the weeks before fixtures are introduced). The reason the tests are optional is that in a data-first design pedagogy (as in Program By Design [11]) the students are expected to give examples of data first, before any tests are written, and it is useful to be able to compile at this stage.…”

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“…A number of educators have argued that TDD is pedagogically effective, even (or especially) in introductory programming courses [4,7,10]. Reasons for this mirror the reasons it is seen as effective as a general software engineering technique: for instance, students can better understand an example if it includes both an interface and an expected result [6], and having a written artifact of the student's understanding of the project requirements is helpful if the student needs to ask a question of a TA or professor (who can then quickly verify that the assumptions are correct before trying to answer the question) [11]. From a more cognitive perspective, an intro student-initially overwhelmed by the open-ended task of starting to write code-is well-served by having to first answer the more-constrained question of what a specific function call, with a specific, concrete parameter, should return.…”

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Unci

Blaheta

2015

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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This paper describes Unci, a unit-testing language with a clean and minimal interface suitable for introducing beginning programming students to the ideas of unit testing and test-driven development. We detail why CppUnit, a common C++-based unit-testing framework, is not well-suited for beginners, and present Unci and explain how it addresses the weaknesses of CppUnit. Finally, we present a comparison of CS2 student performance in the two systems, showing that moving from CppUnit to Unci resulted in an approximate doubling in the proportion of students able to write an effective test suite for a lab assignment.

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Unci

Blaheta

2015

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…Helped students to develop better programming approaches preferably in their own academic discipline Program by design curriculum [64] Program by design curriculum has been implemented in many settings such as: secondary schools and universities.…”

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Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, and Assessments for Introductory Programming Course

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Learning to program involves acquisition of various skills including problem solving, fundamental design techniques as well as critical thinking. Generally, most of the novice programmers struggle to develop all these important skill. The research community has addressed the problem in many different ways while involving improvisations in curriculum, pedagogical methods, cognitive aspects, supporting tools, and in designing assessments. This research aims to analyze and synthesize the existing literature in the aforementioned areas. Research articles pertaining to the area of Introductory Programming Courses (IPC) have been found using appropriate search queries, while nearly 60 research articles, published in last ten years, have been carefully selected by employing a systematic filtering process. The scope of this work only covers the research conducted for IPC in higher education. Main findings of this study show that "solution proposal" and "evaluation research" have been reported as two main research types adopted by these studies. Moreover, pedagogy, language choice and students' performance analysis are the most frequently addressed aspects of IPC; whereas, curriculum contents, assessment design, and teaching/learning through tools have appeared as less addressed aspects of IPC. Furthermore, a taxonomy of IPC has been presented based on the studied literature. Lastly, general considerations and future research directions have been presented for the practitioners and researchers in this area.

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“…This approach is so natural that children in primary school, when properly instructed, can successfully apply it [12,23]. It works best when loops are not introduced, and recursion is the only mechanism available for repeated execution.…”

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A Master Class on Recursion

Verhoeff

2018

Adventures Between Lower Bounds and Higher Altitudes

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We elaborate some key topics for a master class on recursion. In particular, we show how to do recursion in an object-oriented programming language that does not allow recursion. This article is dedicated to Juraj Hromkovič, who has inspired me (and many others) with his rare gift of contributing to cutting-edge research in theoretical computer science and to the didactics and popularization of informatics, and with his contagious enthusiasm for educating others. Good theoretical insights can and must be passed on to the next generations.

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Introductory Computing: The Design Discipline

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