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Teaching problem solving effectively

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Tahreem Fatima Hasni,

Fakhar LodhiAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Inroads, Volume 2, Issue 3

Pages 58 - 62

https://doi.org/10.1145/2003616.2003636

Published: 31 August 2011 Publication History

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To teach students problem solving effectively it is important to guide them properly through the process of problem solving. Most of the programming lab exercises lack emphasis on practicing the process of problem solving. Based on our experience, we have suggested a guideline to design lab exercises. In which we emphasize on defining detailed steps to guide students through the process of problem solving. We have proven through experiments that lab exercises designed with guidelines provided to solve the problem are very effective way of teaching problem solving skills.

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Hooshangi SBuxton REllis MBecker BQuille KLaakso MBarendsen ESimon (2022)Integration of Practical Computing Skills and Co-curricular Activities in the CurriculumProceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 110.1145/3502718.3524802(61-67)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
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Teaching problem solving effectively
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September 2011

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