Brett A. Becker
Abstract
Shifting the focus from the perceived difficulty of learning programming to making programming more universally accessible.
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Digital Library
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- Luxton-Reilly, A. et al. Introductory programming: A systematic literature review. In Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (Larnaca, Cyprus) (ITiCSE 2018 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, 2018, 55--106; https://bit.ly/3v1D9qhGoogle ScholarDigital Library
- Nguyen, A. and Lewis, C.M. Competitive enrollment policies in computing departments negatively predict first-year students' sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and perception of department. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Portland, OR, USA) (SIGCSE '20). ACM, New York, NY, 2020, 685--691; https://bit.ly/2TTr3TlGoogle ScholarDigital Library
- Sime, M.E., Arblaster, A.T., and Green, T.R.G. Structuring the programmer's task. Journal of Occupational Psychology 50, 3 (1977), 205--216; https://bit.ly/3w4NNxLGoogle ScholarCross Ref
- Tedre, M. From a black art to a school subject: Computing education's search for status. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (Trondheim, Norway) (ITiCSE '20). ACM, New York, NY, 2020, 3--4; https://bit.ly/3v436poGoogle ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- What does saying that 'programming is hard' really say, and about whom?
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