Conversational programmers want to learn about code primarily to communicate with
technical co-workers, not to develop software. However, existing instructional materials don't …

Students sometimes produce code that works but that its author does not comprehend. For
example, a student may apply a poorly-understood code template, stumble upon a working …

Students are able to produce correctly functioning program code even though they have a
fragile understanding of how it actually works. Questions derived automatically from …

This paper is a companion to my keynote address at the 9th Computer Science Education
Research Conference (CSERC'20). I review the research that led to my three stage neo …

As the number of conversational programmers grows, computing educators are increasingly
tasked with a paradox: to teach programming to people who want to communicate effectively …

Desde el inicio de la informática, se puede considerar que existen dos bandos, el software
libre y el software propietario, este artículo se enfoca en el mundo que Microsoft está …

Computer programming is a complex field that requires rigorous practice in programming
code writing and learning skills, which can be one of the critical challenges in learning and …

This work attempts to understand how novices approach runtime analysis tasks, where the
number of operations performed by a given program needs to be analyzed by looking at the …

Becoming “a programmer” is associated with gaining a deep understanding of programming
language semantics. However, as more people learn to program for more reasons than …