Efforts to improve computer science education are underway, and teachers of computer
science are challenged in introductory programming courses to help learners develop their …

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

AI code generators like OpenAI Codex have the potential to assist novice programmers by
generating code from natural language descriptions, however, over-reliance might …

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 …

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 …

This article investigates how the recent implementation of programming in school
mathematics interacts with algebraic thinking and learning. Based on Duval's theory of …

Errors in the logic of a program (sometimes referred to as semantic errors) can be very
frustrating for novice programmers to locate and resolve. Develo** a better understanding …

Understanding students' misconceptions is important for effective teaching and assessment.
However, discovering such misconceptions manually can be time-consuming and laborious …

This paper reports on the preliminary results of an ongoing study examining the teaching of
new primary school topics based on Computational Thinking in New Zealand. We analyse …

The feedback given to novice programmers can be substantially improved by delivering
advice focused on learners' cognitive misconceptions contextualized to the instruction …