The ACM java task force

Roberts, Eric; Bruce, Kim B.; Cross, James H.; Cutler, Robb; Grissom, Scott; Klee, Karl J.; Rodger, Susan H.; Trees, Fran; Yellin, Frank

doi:10.1145/1124706.1121384

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“…To introduce GUI programming, we use the library of the ACM Java Task Force [5] for some homework assignments. This library is used for several smaller assignments, such as drawing a stock exchange diagram, and to enable students to use interaction with the user from the first week of the Java lecture.…”

Section: Java Gui Programming Inside Csmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An unusual CS 1 with high standards and confirming results

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Mühlhäuser

2010

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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Section: Java Gui Programming Inside Csmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This library is used for several smaller assignments, such as drawing a stock exchange diagram, and to enable students to use interaction with the user from the first week of the Java lecture. We also use it as a motivation for how to model inheritance, although our model differs from the one in [5].…”

Section: Java Gui Programming Inside Csmentioning

confidence: 99%

An unusual CS 1 with high standards and confirming results

Rößling

Mühlhäuser

2010

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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“…Reuse of libraries is a software engineering skill because reuse enables programmers to create more functionality in less time than they could without reuse. Simultaneously, reuse of libraries is a computer science skill because library API embodies an abstraction-a concept that can be applied in other contexts [1], [2]. For example, Java and .NET provide APIs for using important data structures (e.g., hash tables) and networking operations (e.g., opening sockets).…”

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confidence: 99%

Using Intelligent Tutors to Teach Students How APIs Are Used for Software Engineering in Practice

2013

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Abstract-Computer science courses typically incorporate integrated training in software engineering, which includes learning how to reuse existing code libraries in new programs. This commonly presents a need to use the libraries' application programming interfaces (APIs) during project-based learning activities. The students learn these APIs with little support from the instructor. Instead, they primarily learn from whatever code examples they find on the web-a scattershot approach that is slow, frustrating and sometimes fruitless. Preliminary work investigated an improved approach that provides students with intelligent API tutors. This interactive educational content walks students through code examples selectively harvested from the web. This approach increased students' knowledge of API method names, but a key pedagogical challenge remained: students still lacked an understanding of common problems and surprises that they might encounter when using APIs in practice. Perhaps even more crucially, the prior statistical study provided no information about how students would perceive and accept the intelligent tutor approach, when given a choice. Therefore, the current paper presents an enhanced approach that augments intelligent tutors with selected information from online FAQs and online open source code, thereby providing more explanation and context about how to use APIs in practice. A qualitative study assessed student perceptions of the system's usability as well as suggestions for improvement, revealing that 100% of students considered the approach to be useful. A key implication is that providing information from online FAQs, related articles, and open source code could facilitate computer science students' learning how to use APIs.

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