Considering the non-programming geographer's perspective when designing extracurricular introductory computer programming workshops

Befriending Computer Programming: A Proposed Approach to Teaching Introductory Programming

The problems encountered by students in first year computer programming units are a common concern in many universities including Victoria University. A fundamental component of a computer science curriculum, computer programming is a mandatory unit in a computing course. It is also one of the most feared and hated units by many novice computing students who, having failed or performed poorly i...

Designing Programming Exercises with Computer Assisted Instruction

Teaching of computer programming has created significant difficulties to both teachers and students. Large class size is one of the major barriers to effective instruction. A well-designed pedagogy can make the instruction most effective. This paper will share our experiences of teaching programming courses with large class size. A set of programming exercises have been designed with help of co...

Introductory programming by collaborative method “pair programming”

Learning programming skills and algorithmic way of thinking is a difficult task, particularly in the introductory programming courses. Many students find programming difficult because traditional teaching methods do not adapt well to the process of coding and problem solving, as it is a skill best learned through experience. In the paper we present an application of “pair programming”. It belon...

Introductory Programming: Examining the Exams

This paper describes a classification scheme that can be used to investigate the characteristics of introductory programming examinations. The scheme itself is described and its categories explained. We describe in detail the process of determining the level of agreement among classifiers, that is, the inter-rater reliability of the scheme, and we report the results of applying the classificati...

Comparison of the programming models for considering risk in farm planning:application of utility-efficient programming