Visualize and open up

Authors:
Michela Pedroni;Till G. Bay
Affiliations:
Chair of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Chair of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Venue:
Informatics in education
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Motivating students of the Nintendo generation for Computer Science can only be achieved by providing them with an exiting and fresh CS1 course. The article describes the experience of redesigning the introductory programming course at ETH Zurich and shows how the combination of state-of-the-art visualizations with open project assignments enlivens students' enthusiasm for programming. It shows the setup and the involved libraries, provides example applications that were built in the course, and presents the data gathered in the evaluation of the open assignment.