KOLI-CALLING

The aim of higher education is to enable students to acquire knowledge and to exercise cognitive skills in order support them in their preparation for a professional career. Rather than transferring knowledge in face-to-face contact the modern teacher ...

From qualitative analysis of student interviews emerged three sets of categories, or outcome spaces, describing introductory students' understandings of variables. One outcome space describes different ways of understanding primitive variables. Another ...

At schools special learning and programming environments are often used in the field of algorithm. Particularly with regard to informatics lessons in secondary education they should help novices to learn the basics of programming. In several parts of ...

Several studies have reported positive experiences with Test-Driven Development (TDD) but the results still diverge. In this study we aim to improve understanding on TDD in educational context. We conducted two experiments on TDD in a master's level ...

To help students understand subjects such as theoretical aspects of computation, algorithmic reasoning and intelligence of machines, a number of publications report experiments to teach these topics with the help of Lego Mindstorms robots. In the ...

Explanograms provide "a sketch or diagram that students can play" [10]. They are a directly recorded multi-media resource that can be viewed dynamically. Often they are used in teaching situations to provide animated explanations of concepts or ...

In this article we report the combined findings from an ethnographic field study and action research on implementation of a newly founded IT program in rural Tanzania. We have found that the competences and skills of IT professionals in developing ...

Problems that first year students encounter when majoring in Computer Science (CS) are complex and interrelated. We assume that CS majors drop the subject because, among other non-educational reasons, the teaching process and learning environment do not ...

The partly completed study presented in this paper explores characteristics of stereotypes in Computer Science. The study describes student autobiographical essays about computing, analyzed with particular attention to the ways in which students use ...

We use empirical studies of how students understand concurrent programming and write concurrent programs to determine problem areas in students' understandings and approaches. We then suggest ways to deal with these problems to help students understand ...

Software skills are more and more required within different technical disciplines and the skill requirements vary through time and discipline. Within the Computer Science (CS) discipline the evolution is naturally rather well understood and adapted by ...

The aim of this paper is to discuss our experience with, and some broader thoughts on, the use of student-produced podcasts as a means of supporting and assessing learning. The results of an assessment using this medium are reported, and student ...

Automatic program comprehension (PC) has been extensively studied for decades. It has been studied mainly from two different points of view: understanding the functionality of a program and understanding program structure. In this paper, we address the ...

The range of available visualization tools for programming education is impressive but the research on them is biased mainly on testing the pedagogical effectiveness of the visualization tools. Most of the studies apply empirical techniques in ...

PatternCoder is a software tool to aid student understanding of class associations. It has a wizard-based interface which allows students to select an appropriate binary class association or design pattern for a given problem. Java code is then ...

ViLLE is a visualization tool for teaching programming to novice programmers. It has an extendable support for multiple programming languages which enables language-independent learning of programming. As a new feature, ViLLE supports automatically ...

JLS and JLSCircuitTester are logic design, simulation and testing tools that meet the needs of instructors and students in logic design and computer organization courses. They were designed and implemented by instructors of such courses expressly to ...

PeerWise is a web-based system that allows multiple-choice question banks to be built solely from student input. The system provides a number of intrinsic reward structures that encourage students to contribute high-quality questions in the complete ...

Our research revealed creativity as a pathway to computer science in the biographies of CS freshman. Furthermore the application of creativity in CS classes was found to be a powerful instrument to address students' motivation and interest. This poster ...

Conflictive animations is an approach to use animations in programming education which was introduced at last year's Koli Calling [4]. Conflictive animations are created so that they do not animate faithfully what the programs intend to do. They aim to ...

The optional maturity programming exam is considered as an outcome of the secondary curriculum on information technologies in Lithuania. The most important part of the exam is the evaluation of the students' programs. A special application was developed ...

In developing countries higher learning institutions have been at the forefront of acquisition developing and use of technology. Most of institutions influence the dissemination and therefore accessibility of technology in their respective regions. ...