As computing becomes a mainstream discipline embedded in the school curriculum and
acts as an enabler for an increasing range of academic disciplines in higher education, the …

Contribution: This paper adds to the results of previous systematic literature reviews by
addressing a more contemporary context of introductory programming. It proposes a …

Computing education is in enormous demand. Many students (both children and adult) are
realizing that they will need programming in the future. This book presents the argument that …

Educational data mining and learning analytics promise better understanding of student
behavior and knowledge, as well as new information on the tacit factors that contribute to …

One of the central topics in computing education research (CEDR) is the exploration of how
a person learns their first programming language, also described in terms such as …

Decades of effort has been put into decreasing the high failure rates of introductory
programming courses. Whilst numerous studies suggest approaches that provide effective …

Prior research has shown that Parsons problems are an engaging type of code completion
problem that can be used to teach syntactic and semantic language constructs. They can …

Computing education lags other discipline-based education research in the number and
range of validated assessments available to the research community. Validated …

This Handbook describes the extent and shape of computing education research today.
Over fifty leading researchers from academia and industry (including Google and Microsoft) …

Sketching out a code trace is a cognitive assistance for programmers, student and
professional. Previous research (Lister et al. 2004) showed that students who sketch a trace …