Considerable research has been devoted in recent decades to identifying optimal pedagogical strategies for teaching computer programming. Often the result of these efforts has been to conclude that we have made little progress, as our students consistently perform poorly on the assessments we apply to measure teaching efficacy. In this paper, we suggest that a significant contributor to this po...

— The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting the malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are adduced by the supporters of the ‘‘globalization as it is’’ (the Halcyon days of the 1870–1913, and the record of the last two decades of development) are...

When faced with frequent interruptions and task-switching, programmers have difficulty keeping relevant task knowledge in their mind. An understanding of how programmers actively manage this knowledge provides a foundation for evaluating cognitive theories and building better tools. Recently, advances in cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging technology has provided new insight into the inner...