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 …

This article is a survey of program visualization systems intended for teaching beginners
about the runtime behavior of computer programs. Our focus is on generic systems that are …

Blocks-based programming environments are becoming increasingly common in
introductory programming courses, but to date, little comparative work has been done to …

Have you ever struggled with writing a SQL query to retrieve data? Students certainly do. In
this paper we set out to investigate why this is the case. The first step to making less …

Programming misconceptions have been a topic of interest in introductory programming
education, with a focus on university level students. Nowadays, programming is increasingly …

One of the aspects of programming that learners often struggle with is the syntax of
programming languages: remembering the right commands to use and combining those into …

This article provides insight into how computing majors experience the process of doing
programming assignments in their first programming course. This grounded theory study …

This paper discusses the results of a Grounded Theory study on students experience with
introductory programming assignments in the light of social cognitive theory. In previous …

Context: Programmers' mental models represent their knowledge and understanding of
programs, programming concepts, and programming in general. They guide programmers' …

Knowledge about misconceptions is an important element of pedagogical content
knowledge. The computing education research community collected a large body of …