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	Simon, Beth     Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending Date Reviewed     1 - 5 of 5 reviews       Success in introductory programming: What works? Porter L., Guzdial M., McDowell C., Simon B. Communications of the ACM 56(8): 34-36, 2013.  Type: Article Introductory computer science (CS) and programing courses have universally recorded high rates of failure, which directly impact the pathway options into second- and third-year courses. This article addresses the problem using three te...... Aug 19 2013     How we teach impacts student learning: peer instruction vs. lecture in CS0 Simon B., Parris J., Spacco J.  SIGCSE 2013 (Proceeding of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Denver, CO, Mar 6-9, 2013) 41-46, 2013.  Type: Proceedings Assuming we know what we want to teach, what is the best way to convey this information? There are many papers on how to improve teaching and retention in computer science courses. This one focuses on the method of presentation itself....... May 9 2013     Commonsense computing (episode 6): logic is harder than pie VanDeGrift T., Bouvier D., Chen T., Lewandowski G., McCartney R., Simon B.  Koli Calling 2010 (Proceedings of the 10th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, Berlin, Germany, Oct 28-31, 2010) 76-85, 2010.  Type: Proceedings An experiment involving an evaluation of the ease of understanding the logical operators XOR and NAND is described in this paper. Studies in this domain--education in logic--have been carried out only recently....... Aug 18 2011     For me, programming is .. Simon B., Hanks B., McCauley R., Morrison B., Murphy L., Zander C.  ICER 2009 (Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computing Education Research, Berkeley, CA, Aug 10-11, 2009) 105-116, 2009.  Type: Proceedings In this paper, Simon et al. try to determine the reasons for the decreasing enrollment in computer science courses in the last decade. It is based on a survey used to identify “both the range and most common student attitudes...... Sep 24 2009     Struggles of new college graduates in their first software development job Begel A., Simon B.  Computer science education (Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, OR, Mar 12-15, 2008) 226-230, 2008.  Type: Proceedings If you have ever wondered why new software graduates are so poorly prepared to work, then you must read this wonderful paper. It explains the challenges facing new college graduates and university curricula....... Apr 16 2008
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