Unlocking the clubhouse

Fisher, Allan L.; Margolis, Jane

doi:10.1145/543812.543836

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“…This development is not surprising since similar observations have already been made by Fisher and Margolis (2002) in the early 2000s when a lack of female interest in studying computer science was associated with women's wish to have a "context of computing" instead of "hacking for hacking's sake".…”

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Teaching Erlang using robotics and player/stage

Grüner

Lorentsen

2009

Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ERLANG

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Computer science is often associated with dull code debugging instead of solving interesting problems. This fact causes a decrease in the number of computer science students which can be stopped by giving lectures on an interesting context like robotics. In this paper we introduce an easily deployable and extensible library which allows programming a popular robot simulator in Erlang. New possibilities for visual, simple and attractive teaching of functional languages are open.

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confidence: 56%

Teaching Erlang using robotics and player/stage

Grüner

Lorentsen

2009

Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ERLANG

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“…Computing in a context appears to be more attractive to women [3,9], a typically underrepresented group in computing. Women also express a desire to do something that makes a difference in the world.…”

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Interdisciplinary computing classes

Carter

2014

Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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The benefits of interdisciplinary computing classes have been widely discussed. For the computing students, they provide a context in which to apply their skills, and appear to aid in recruitment and retention. For non-computing students, they provide additional skills to enhance their own crafts. For both, interdisciplinary programs open up new career possibilities and hone soft skills. In consideration of these and other benefits, the Point Loma Nazarene University Mathematical, Information, and Computer Sciences department have teamed up with the Biology, Chemistry, and Physics departments to offer several opportunities for interdisciplinary experiences to their students. In addition to the benefits, however, these programs produce significant challenges. This paper reviews the benefits of interdisciplinarity and discusses three different models of interdisciplinary experiences used at PLNU. It reports on the challenges that arose in each, and ways these difficulties were resolved. Finally, it discusses the hurdle of recruiting for such courses.

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“…There is evidence that non-programmers exhibit an incomplete mental model with misconceptions about service composition [11]. Intrinsically, end-users also lack interest in programming activities [57] and have low levels of self-efficacy, which refers to one's confidence in one's ability to complete a particular task [58]. Moreover, programming tasks largely depend on problem-solving skills to be solved.…”

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Non-Programmers Composing Software Services: A Confirmatory Study of the Mental Models and Design Challenges

2019

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Ordinary web users can now create and publish online content. They even venture into “mashups,” integrating information from different sources into a composite information-providing web service. This is a non-trivial design task, which falls into the area of end-user development when the ordinary users who perform it do not have programming education. In this article, we investigate the service design strategies of 12 such ordinary users and compare them against the baseline of 12 programmers. In our think-aloud study, users completed two contrasting types of tasks involved in developing service-based applications: (a) manual service composition and (b) parametric design using templates with a high degree of software support (or assisted composition). These service composition tasks were chosen to differ in respect to the level of user support provided by the tool. Our findings show that non-programmers liked, more than programmers, the template-based parametric design and did not find the tool assistance as constraining as the programmers did. The difficulty of design involved in manual service composition and the absence of user guidance hindered non-programmers in expressing and implementing accurate design solutions. The differences in the mental models and needs of non-programmers are established to be in stark contrast to those of programmers. We used the details of our findings to propose specialized design recommendations for service composition tools aligned with the profiles of their target users.

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Unlocking the clubhouse

Cited by 292 publications

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Teaching Erlang using robotics and player/stage

Teaching Erlang using robotics and player/stage

Interdisciplinary computing classes

Non-Programmers Composing Software Services: A Confirmatory Study of the Mental Models and Design Challenges

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