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High school students' perspective to university CS1

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Antti-Jussi Lakanen,

Ville IsomöttönenAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '13: Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 261 - 266

https://doi.org/10.1145/2462476.2465585

Published: 01 July 2013 Publication History

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This paper presents a qualitative study of a school-university collaborative project where a game-themed CS1 course was offered as-is to high school students. Our specific interest was to explore the students' experiences with the university level course. Our analyses indicate that immediate and regular support was highly important for student performance, as support of this kind could mitigate issues related to students' orientation towards the high workload of the course. Students who showed academic interest were likely to pass, whereas students lacking self-direction or work efficiency were likely to drop out. Both passed and drop-outs found the course to be a good learning experience. The game theme of the course was in most cases found highly motivating and fun, while it was not a necessity for the majority of the students. This information can be utilized by higher education instructors who plan to carry out university courses in cooperation with high schools.

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High school students' perspective to university CS1
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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