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Why do fools fall into infinite loops: singing to your computer science class

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ITiCSE '99: Proceedings of the 4th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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One effective way to introduce a dose of humanity, acknowledge the needs and struggles of CS1 students, and appeal to a broader range of learning styles is to present a computer science topic in an entertaining manner, e.g., with some form of artistic performance. In this paper, I describe three songs for CS1 that are designed to help students surmount three of the most difficult hurdles of that course. Empirical and anecdotal results demonstrate that the songs help students learn, and help them enjoy learning. These songs are a case study in entertainment; all instructors can find some way to entertain their class, and recordings of the songs themselves are available on the web for any instructor or student.

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Why do fools fall into infinite loops: singing to your computer science class
1. Applied computing
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ITiCSE '99: Proceedings of the 4th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 1999

214 pages

ISBN:1581130872

DOI:10.1145/305786

Chairmen:
Carl Erickson
Grand Valley State Univ.
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Tadeusz Wilusz
Cracow Univ. of Economics, Poland
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Mats Daniels
Uppsala Univ., Sweden
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Renée McCauley
Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana
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Editor:
Bill Manaris
Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 31, Issue 3
Sept. 1999
212 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/384267
Editor:
John Impagliazzo
Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY
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Virtue PWolfman SDougherty JBarnes TGarcia DHawthorne EPérez-Quiñones M(2018)SIGCSE Filk CircleProceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3159450.3159640(545-546)Online publication date: 21-Feb-2018
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