During the last few years, the focus of computer science education (CSE) in primary and
secondary schools (shortly K-12) have reached a significant turning point. This study …

Computing education and outreach in the K--12 school sector have shown significant growth
over recent decades, resulting in a large body of literature focused on the teaching and …

ABSTRACT Background and Context We explored how learning trajectories (LTs) might be
used to design variables instruction. Objective We aimed to develop an LT for variables and …

Over the last decade, there has been a concerted effort to bring more diverse voices to the
technology field, with much of this being done through outreach activities to girls and boys …

This Research Full Paper presents insights from digital worksheets with embedded
interactive programming exercises tailored for high-school students new to programming …

The Rainfall problem comprises small tasks that have been used to investigate student
performance in introductory programming. We conducted several kinds of analyses to inform …

Learners in Massive Open Online Courses offering practical programming exercises face
additional challenges next to the actual course content. Beginners have to find approaches …

During the past five years, we have made two major changes to our introductory
programming course in computer science (CS1). First, we have developed a tool with which …

This work-in-progress paper in innovative practice category presents and evaluates a multi-
functional document-based learning management system, TIM (The Interactive Material) …

Phenomenographic studies in computing education research have previously focused on
learning" programming thinking"[3], the act of learning to program [2], and conceptions of …