The difficulty in understanding compiler error messages can be a major impediment to
novice student learning. To alleviate this issue, multiple researchers have run experiments …

The focus of this paper is on science students (CS minors) in a CS1 Java course at a
technical university. The following three questions are discussed: 1) Which programming …

The self-belief, motivation, tendency to procrastinate and learning styles of engineering
students are discussed. It is proposed that engineering has developed an idiom and a …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how a clinical interview protocol with
failure artifact scenarios can capture changes in high school students' explanations of …

Research on global competencies of computing students suggests that next to technical
programming knowledge, the teaching of non-technical skills such as creativity is becoming …

The growing need for programming and computational skills has led to a demand for
teaching approaches that can appeal to a broader audience. We explore the design and …

Isomöttönen, Ville Theorizing a one-semester real customer student software project course
Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2011, 189 p.(Jyväskylä Studies in Computing ISSN 1456 …

Debugging physical computing projects provides a rich context to understand cross-
disciplinary problem solving that integrates multiple domains of computing and engineering …

The ongoing debate among Computer Science educators about the advantages and
disadvantages of the shift from the procedural to the Object-Oriented paradigm usually …

This paper presents the results of an in-depth qualitative study carried out to investigate the
teaching and learning of Semiotic Engineering methods, namely the Semiotic Inspection …