Engaging students in programming fundamentals using alice 2.0

Authors:
Paul M. Mullins;Michael Conlon
Affiliations:
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, USA;Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, USA
Venue:
SIGITE '08 Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Many of the programming principles taught in any programming fundamentals course are essentially the same. We will describe some of the principles and techniques that students learn in a first programming course using Alice 2.0 that is shared by programs in IS, IT, CS and liberal studies, drawing from the IT Computing Curricula 2005. We will then describe a set of nifty assignments that result in projects that exercise these principles and techniques and may be used to emphasize one or more in depth topical issues.