The accelerating evolution and adoption of cloud computing services is generating increased demand for job skills in this domain. To address this growth, higher education has identified the importance of cloud computing courses that are practical and ...

Students often struggle with advanced computing courses, and comparatively few studies have looked into the reasons for this. It seems that learners do not master the most basic concepts, or forget them between courses. If so, remedial practice could ...

A notional machine is a pedagogic device to assist the understanding of some aspect of programs or programming. It is typically used to support explaining a programming construct, or the user-understandable semantics of a program. For example, a ...

This research is dedicated to the theory which underlies programming teaching through the worked examples. Today Computing Education Research (CER) has a lack of agreement on the efficiency of different methodologies applied in programming teaching. I ...

In computer programming education, showing the application of programming in reality has become a common way to introduce it to young learners. However, we have limited knowledge of how best to utilize smart objects and environments to foster the ...

This paper reports on an extension of NetLogo designed to enable immediate, visual-based creation of multi-voice music at the level of notes, motifs, and phrases. The extension, NetMusic, uses the NetLogo interface as a visual sketchpad and configurable ...

We present an approach for teaching maths to game development undergraduates from a wide variety of backgrounds. We discuss the concepts behind an introductory maths course, its assessment and put forward some preliminary results on a practical ...

This paper will present an ongoing project to identify elements of best practice for the delivery of online synchronous tutorials. The authors have been involved with the delivery of online synchronous sessions for several years, observing both the role ...

File systems are a significant topic in operating systems courses and a good understanding of them is important for software developers in order to use them well. One way to give students hands-on experience with the file system layers is via simulation,...

Teaching design patterns has proved to be a complicated topic in software engineering courses. Practitioners require mastering this technique in order to develop higher-quality programs. As part of the experiment, we used pair programming practice to ...

We present FGPE AuthorKit, a tool to author programming exercises featuring gamification elements that provide additional motivation for the students to intensify their learning effort. The tool allows the (1) creation of exercises and their associated ...

SCRIPT (Strategic CSforALL Resource and Implementation Planning Tool) is a tool and a process created by CSforALL to catalyze systems change by offering a framework to plan and implement Computer Science Education for all students at a local education ...

Many people believe that programming is hard. This might appear true, when looking at the education, but not necessarily due to the subject itself. Often, the complexity lies in mathematical problems that can be hard to comprehend or relate to for ...

Student teaching assistants are not uncommon in computer science. However, their pedagogical training is often only superficial. This poster presents the Teaching Lab - a mature and fully developed training course for novice teachers (mostly ...

Mobile applications are very challenging to test as they usually have a complex graphical user interface and advanced functionality that involves interacting with remote services. Due to these features, student assessment in courses about mobile ...

Whilst today's computing educators are very successful at preparing students in the technologies of computing, they are also entrusted with the responsibility of preparing them to face the complex issues surrounding ethics. These issues are perpetually ...

With its direct feedback and the tangible machine, robotics is a strong motivator for engaging students in STEM fields, as evidenced by the popularity of competitions and events such as FIRST and Robo Games. However, in the context of K-12 computer ...

We present check50, an open-source, extensible tool for assessing the correctness of students' code that provides a simple, functional framework for writing checks as well as an easy-to-use API that abstracts away common tasks, among them compiling and ...

There is a constantly growing number of initiatives asserting the relevance of programming already in primary education and offering respective interventions with the goal to foster interest in and positive attitudes toward programming. To evaluate to ...

Spatial skills have been associated with STEM success for decades. Research has shown that training spatial skills can have a positive impact on outcomes in STEM domains such as engineering, mathematics and physics; however -- despite some promising ...