Contemporary discussions of education in blended-learning environments increasingly
emphasize the social nature of learning which emphasizes interactions among students, or …

Many block-based programming environments have proven to be effective at engaging
novices in learning programming. However, most offer only restricted access to the outside …

Many block-based programming environments have proven to be effective at engaging
novices in learning programming. However, most restrict access to the outside world, limiting …

While many technical disciplines have reached or are moving toward gender parity in the
number of bachelors degrees in those fields, the percentage of women graduating in …

This paper reports the results of a survey with 40 students enrolled in an Android Application
Development course offered during the spring semester of 2013 and 2014. The course used …

This paper describes a framework for measuring student learning gains and engagement in
a Computer Science 1 (CS 1)/Information Systems 1 (IS 1) course. The framework is …

An introduction to programming course can be a challenge for both students and instructors.
This paper describes a study that introduced Web services (WS) and Service-Oriented …

Current web applications are increasing in popularity because of their browser-rich
interfaces and ability to incorporate information from a variety of sources. This paper …

The Internet is an exciting place to find real, interesting, and interactive sources of data for
use in the classroom. This data (often real world), can provide the basis of interesting …

Traditional coverage of network programming techniques in a computer networking course
addresses sockets, remote procedure call, and object-oriented remote procedure call. We …