Innovation and technology in computer science education is driven by research and
practice. Both of these activities involve the gathering and analysis of data in order to …

Computing education research (CER) is a rapidly advancing discipline, offering vast
potential for data-driven, secondary research or replication studies. Although gathering and …

This book covers a qualitative study on the programming competencies of novice learners in
higher education. To be precise, the book investigates the expected programming …

Tasks, understood as educational instructions to transform an initial state to a targeted state
in the learner model, are central elements in (computer science) education, irrespective of …

Teaching and learning recursive programming has been the subject of numerous research
projects and studies. However, few research publications focus on learners' steps while …

The increasing availability of online tools helps support computing students via feedback to
gain more practice in programming at their own pace. Due to the lack of educators' insights …

This chapter introduces the results of the seven guided interviews with experts, which were
analyzed by using summarizing qualitative content analysis. The identified cognitive …

The goal of this chapter is to summarize and review the programming competencies
identified via the applied research methodology. Hence, the cognitive competencies …

Tasks are central elements in computer-science classes irrespective of the mode of delivery–
online or classic face-to-face teaching. They appear in different roles; as learning objects …

Teaching computing to students at all levels involves navigating both conspicuous and
inconspicuous challenges. The primary goal for a student is to grasp the pedagogical …