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 …

Programming is a complex task that requires the development of many skills including
knowledge of syntax, problem decomposition, algorithm development, and debugging …

ABSTRACT Background and Context: Current introductory instruction fails to identify,
structure, and sequence the many skills involved in programming. Objective: We proposed a …

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 …

This working group asserts that Program Comprehension (ProgComp) plays a critical part in
the process of writing programs. For example, this paper is written from a basic draft that was …

We propose and evaluate a lightweight strategy for tracing code that can be efficiently taught
to novice programmers, building off of recent findings on" sketching" when tracing. This …

ABSTRACT Background and Context Lopez and Lister first presented evidence for a skill
hierarchy of code reading, tracing, and writing for introductory programming students …

A primary goal of computing education research is to discover designs that produce better
learning of computing. In this pursuit, we have increasingly drawn upon theories from …

This article reviews literature on worked examples in the context of programming activities.
We focus on two types of examples, namely, code-tracing and code-generation, because …

Teaching text-based programming poses significant challenges in both school and
university contexts. This study explores the potential of ChatGPT as a sustainable didactic …