This paper discusses the results of replicating and extending a previous study on the active learning pedagogy of Peer Instruction (PI) in the topics of unit testing, integration testing and continuous integration. The original paper studied the ...

Finding a common ground between academic and industry training is a challenging task. However, despite all the differences between the two worlds, there is one important common aspect for the master students and industry trainees in the field of ...

Due to globalization, many software projects have become large-scale and distributed tasks that require software engineers to learn and apply techniques for distributed requirements analysis, modeling, development, and deployment. Globally-distributed ...

One of the important tasks in learning programming is writing a line of code performing the necessary action. This allows students to practice skills in a playground with instant feedback before writing more complex programs and increases their ...

Undergraduate software engineering courses typically require students to work on team-based projects that reinforce disciplinary content and soft skills. At the same time, these students, particularly those at liberal arts institutions, are required to ...

Teaching Scrum using Lego has been an established teaching technique for years. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers all over the globe to rethink this valuable teaching tool. In this experience report, we show how we transferred our version ...

Digitization is becoming part of almost everyone's life, ranging from smartphones and tablets, smart devices automatically collecting information, to tools and scripting languages that are widely available and easy to use. This has recently been ...

Teamwork skills are increasingly important for students to have as they enter the workforce, especially in software development positions. However, autistic students do not get to practice teamwork since much of their education is focused on learning ...

Over the last years, the software industry has adopted several DevOps technologies related to practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery. The high demand for DevOps practitioners requires non-trivial adjustments in traditional ...

Cybersecurity educators have widely introduced hackathons to facilitate practical knowledge gaining in cybersecurity education. Introducing such events into cybersecurity courses can provide valuable learning experiences for students. The nature of the ...

Students find learning to design software challenging. There are often multiple ways to solve a problem, and it is not easy to recognise how well one is doing. Feedback from the lecturer, teaching assistant, or peers may help students learn from their ...

Debugging can be challenging for novice and expert programmers alike. Programmers routinely turn to online resources such as Stack Overflow for help, but understanding of debugging search practices, as well as tool support to find debugging resources, ...

Pauses in typing are generally considered to indicate cognitive processing and so are of interest in educational contexts. While much prior work has looked at typing behavior of Computer Science students, this paper presents results of a study ...

Video-based programming tutorials are a popular form of tutorial used by authors to guide learners to code. Still, the interactivity of these videos is limited primarily to control video flow. There are existing works with increased interactivity that ...

IT-Security Tabletop Games for developers have been available in analog format; with the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in collaborative remote security games has increased. In this paper, we propose a methodology to evaluate the impact of a (remote) ...

Flow is the experience of deep absorption in a demanding, intrinsically-motivating task conducted with skill. We consider how to measure behavioural correlates of flow from fine-grained process data extracted from programming environments. Specifically, ...