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 …

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 …

One of the central topics in computing education research (CEdR) is the exploration of how
a person learns their first programming language, also described in terms such as …

This paper describes the new Java memory model, which has been revised as part of Java
5.0. The model specifies the legal behaviors for a multithreaded program; it defines the …

Research in program comprehension has considerably evolved over the past two decades.
However, only little is known about how developers practice program comprehension under …

Assertions play an important role in the construction of robust software. Their use in
programming languages dates back to the 1970s. Eiffel, an object-oriented programming …

When scripts in untyped languages grow into large programs, maintaining them becomes
difficult. A lack of types in typical scripting languages means that programmers must (re) …

Social scientists have used computation since the days of the earliest digital computers.
What is the role of computation in contemporary Computational Social Science (CSS) theory …

This paper presents a study that examines developer perceptions and usage of generative
AI (GAI) in a summer professional development program for game development interns …

What knowledge does learning programming require? Prior work has focused on theorizing
program writing and problem solving skills. We examine program comprehension and …