Professors across various disciplines in the liberal arts increasingly find themselves incorporating programming into their classes. Examples include media professors teaching web design and video game development, art professors teaching Processing, ...

The Nifty Assignments special session is all about promoting and sharing the ideas and ready-to-use materials of successful assignments. Each presenter will introduce their assignment, give a quick demo, and describe its niche in the curriculum and its ...

Submitty is an open-source course management platform for assignment submission with automated testing and grading, immediate feedback with an option for resubmission, and manual grading from course instructors and TAs. We have added an integrated ...

This poster provides a description of an NSF-sponsored project entitled "ECS4Alabama" that addresses one of the nation's areas of highest priority in K-12 education: To offer all children opportunities for preparation in authentic Computer Science, with ...

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an effective way for a university to deliver course content that reaches a global audience. Such developments are not without substantial costs and risks [1]. On the Coursera platform, there are MOOC ...

Snap! is blocks-based programming language that inherits a design and vocabulary from Scratch, but has been extended with support for user-defined functions, and robust built-in libraries. The Snap! Cloud software has been running for over 5 years and ...

Media computation provides a context within which computation can more easily be learned, allowing students to be creative while learning fundamental programming building blocks (like sequencing, iteration, selection, and two-dimensional arrays). ...

Computer science universities and colleges around the nation are experiencing large growth in enrollments. To maintain in-person interaction with students, large courses typically include multiple recitations, each led by a Teaching Assistant (TA). ...

Automated grading has become crucial in supporting large introductory Computer Science courses by assisting instructors in reducing grading time and course costs. However, novice programmers are often frustrated by auto-grading tools as they often ...

In this research, we devised learning support strategies to change how teaching assistants (TAs) for basic university courses in information technology (IT) behave toward students during programming classes. Based on learning support strategies, we ...

For many years, beginning computer science students have been asked the seemingly simple question: what makes one algorithm better than another? Usually, this concept of "best-ness" is introduced with the many algorithms that are used to sort data. Thus,...

Inspired by initiatives like Girls Who Code, the authors developed a similar learning opportunity in a higher education environment. Code for Her, a nine-week coding workshop series, was piloted to determine if interest existed in the academic ...

With large class sizes and instructors who may not be equipped to assist struggling students, many students abandon the field, deeming it to be too difficult and not for them. Consistent, constructive, supportive feedback through a Tutoring Companion ...

Labs in a large lecture course provide highly scaffolded programming exercises. Despite positive student feedback, some students were not achieving the learning goals. This project attempted to increase student's conceptual understanding using short ...

The first step in the research process is developing an understanding of the problem at hand. Novices may be interested in learning about machine translation (MT), but often lack experience and intuition about the task of translation (either by human or ...

Much research has been conducted demonstrating that women often have different experiences in computer science than their male classmates. Self-esteem research provides one way we can understand the effects of these experiences as self-esteem has long ...

A significant issue Computer Science students face are syntax errors. This poster presents two studies on the use of typing exercises. In a usability and interaction study, 14 students were asked to complete typing, fill in the blank, and self-...

Game engine design and development is a highly desirable area of exploration for students involved in the computing sciences. Equally, faculty find the use of game engines to be highly compelling in upper division computing courses as they consolidate ...

Studies in other disciplines demonstrate that writing summaries of videos or readings is an effective strategy for increasing student understanding. We explore a related strategy in computer science where we ask students to write explanations of program ...

In this poster, the investigators report their experience in teaching five computer science courses that were developed specifically for non-CS major students. These courses were taught in a four-year period in a public research institution in the South-...