Collaborative group projects can be messy and our students are often underprepared for them. The CoLab.online web application is designed to give project-based instructors the data and support they need to help their students develop the skills ...

Students entering the corporate sphere, particularly in client-facing positions, find themselves in a world of ambiguity that needs to be analyzed, clarified, and effectively described and communicated in order to transform real-world problems into real-...

For CS50 at Harvard, we have developed a suite of free, open-source tools to help students with writing, testing, and submitting programming assignments and to help teachers grade those assignments and check them for similarities. help50 parses often-...

Computing is a large and growing presence in society in 2020, and like many others, we see a strong demand from non-computing majors for "CS For All" courses. Unlike many others, we do not feel that putting traditional programming first is the best way ...

Labtainers are fully provisioned Linux-based computer science lab exercises with an initial emphasis on cybersecurity. Consistent lab execution environments and automated provisioning are provided by Docker containers. With over 50 lab exercises ...

Although they might initially think otherwise, students can make positive societal impacts through their programming skills, even as early as their introductory programming courses. This paper describes a culminating first-year experience where student ...

This experience report describes the idea of making teammates aware of personality differences and its influence on team work. This is a topic that has relevance in any team work setting, in particular in Software Engineering (SE) where team work is ...

Imagery is a cognitive process commonly used in sports in which athletes internally or externally visualize themselves performing a skill, allowing them to create an internal experience similar to the physical event. It is intended to allow participants ...

The feedback provided by current testing education tools about the deficiencies in a student's test suite either mimics industry code coverage tools or lists specific instructor test cases that are missing from the student's test suite. While useful in ...

Automated grading often requires automated test suites to identify students' faults. However, tests may not detect some faults, limiting feedback, and providing inaccurate grades. This issue can be mitigated by first ensuring that tests can detect ...

This paper discusses the results of partially replicating and modifying a study performed by Zingaro and Porter examining the relationship between fine grained clicker data from in class Peer Instruction and students' performance in quizzes and exams. ...

Peer Instruction (PI) is an active learning pedagogy in which students actively participate in the classroom. There have been several research studies regarding the value of PI in computer science. The present work adds to this body of knowledge by ...

In general, college students enrolled in computer science courses are provided some software design classes and exercises. In a cross-reviewing learning/exercise environment, however, beginners often cannot provide useful feedback and viewpoints to ...

Providing students with authentic software development experiences is essential to preparing them for careers in industry. To that end, many undergraduate courses include a team-based software development experience in which each team works on a ...

When faced with a large and complex project for the first time, students face numerous self-regulatory challenges that they may be ill-equipped to overcome. These challenges can result in degraded project outcomes, as commonly observed in programming-...