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Bridging the conceptual gap: assessing the impact on student attitudes toward programming

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 39, Issue 1

Pages 509 - 513

https://doi.org/10.1145/1227504.1227483

Published: 07 March 2007 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe an experiment designed to test the effect of a novel first day lecture on student attitudes toward programming. The lecture does not require any knowledge of a specific language or a specific paradigm. Student evaluation surveys indicate that the lecture is effective at helping students to see programming as more than the simple creation of an artifact but rather as a systematic problem-solving process.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 39, Issue 1

March 2007

581 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1227504

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SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2007
634 pages
ISBN:1595933611
DOI:10.1145/1227310
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University of Hartford
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SUNY Potsdam
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Haverford College
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