Teaching introductory programming in the multi-media world

Teaching programming to beginners is a complex task. In this article, the effects of three factors—choice of programming language, problem-solving training, and the use of formative assessment—on learning to program were investigated. The study adopted ...

Several computer science education studies show that it is important when teaching introductory computer programming to teach the fundamental skills needed to learn programming in a sequenced order. These skills are reading code, writing code, ...

CLIPS is an expert system shell, originally developed at NASA. In universities, it is often used in courses in Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems and projects for building expert systems. I believe it can be used effectively in courses in ...