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 …

Parallel surveys of introductory programming courses were conducted in Australasia and the
UK, with a view to examining the programming languages being used, the preferred …

It has been estimated that more than two million students started computing studies in 1999
and 650,000 of them either dropped or failed their first programming course. For the …

We present results from a nationwide survey of undergraduate computer science
departments regarding languages and techniques taught in CS0, CS1, and CS2. This …

The traditional approach to training novice programmers has been to provide explicit
programming knowledge instruction but to rely on implicit instruction of programming …

This paper addresses how CodeSpells uses the metaphor of wizardry, along with an
embodied API to engage students in learning to program in Java. Giving novice …

This paper reports the findings of a census of introductory programming courses. Eighty five
courses from Australian and New Zealand universities are included. The census aims to …

This paper reports on a survey of introductory programming courses in Australia and New
Zealand conducted in the first half of 2016. Such surveys have been conducted a number of …

Understanding the popularity, and its trend, of programming languages can be important to
anticipate which languages are best studied for future use, which are widely supported for …

Despite instructors' best efforts in designing and delivering any given course, changes are
likely required from time to time. This experience report presents the changes made in a …