Context With the rising complexity and scale of software systems, there is an ever-increasing
demand for sophisticated and cost-effective software testing. To meet such a demand, there …

The need for organized computing education efforts dates back to the 1950s. Since then,
computing education research (CER) has evolved and matured from its early initiatives and …

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 …

From the Foreword “These authors have clearly shown the value in looking for the signature
pedagogies of their disciplines. Nothing uncovers hidden assumptions about desired …

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 …

In einer jungen Wissenschaft wie der Informatik mit ihrer Vielschichtigkeit und ihrer
unüberschaubaren Anwendungsvielfalt ist man oftmals noch bestrebt, eine …

Computer Science (CS) is a relatively new disciple and how best to introduce it to new
students remains an open question. Likewise, the identification of appropriate instructional …

The research field of end-user programming has largely been concerned with hel** non-
experts learn to code sufficiently well in order to achieve their tasks. Generative AI stands to …

A rich body of empirically grounded results and a solid theory base have often been viewed
as signs of a mature discipline. Many disciplines have frequently debated what they should …

In order to mature as a research field, computing education research (CER) seeks to build a
better theoretical understanding of how students learn computing concepts and processes …