As computing becomes a mainstream discipline embedded in the school curriculum and
acts as an enabler for an increasing range of academic disciplines in higher education, the …

Contribution: This paper adds to the results of previous systematic literature reviews by
addressing a more contemporary context of introductory programming. It proposes a …

The data about high students' failure rates in introductory programming courses have been
alarming many educators, raising a number of important questions regarding prediction …

Guzdial concludes:“This paper is exploring an important question and does make a
contribution. But it'sa much more limited study than what has come before.” Many references …

In addition to being a well-liked form of recreation, escape rooms have drawn the attention of
educators due to their ability to foster teamwork, leadership, creative thinking, and …

One of the central topics in computing education research (CEDR) is the exploration of how
a person learns their first programming language, also described in terms such as …

Methods for automatically identifying students in need of assistance have been studied for
decades. Initially, the work was based on somewhat static factors such as students' …

Problem solving skills are considered an important component in learning to program in an
introductory programming (IP) course for novices. This study introduced a PROSOLVE game …

Decades of effort has been put into decreasing the high failure rates of introductory
programming courses. Whilst numerous studies suggest approaches that provide effective …

Prior research has shown that Parsons problems are an engaging type of code completion
problem that can be used to teach syntactic and semantic language constructs. They can …