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Teaching CS1 on-line: the good, the bad, and the ugly

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SIGCSE '99: The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/299649.299758

Published: 01 March 1999 Publication History

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Nowadays, many universities and colleges are offering courses at distance. In this paper, I present my experiences and results with the offering of a CS1 course to students in our campus. The course was offered during the last academic year 97-98. I describe our motivation for the on-line course and my observations about student performance. Also, I compare the results of the on-line class with the traditional one.

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SIGCSE '99: The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

March 1999

383 pages

ISBN:1581130856

DOI:10.1145/299649

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Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 31, Issue 1
March 1999
370 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/384266
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Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY
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