A media computation course for non-majors
Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Design process for a non-majors computing course
Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
The inverted curriculum in practice
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Teaching computer science in context
ACM Inroads
Experience report: CS1 for majors with media computation
Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
The Greenfoot Programming Environment
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
AGUIA/J: a tool for interactive experimentation of objects
Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Developing contexts for teaching Java using AGUIA/J
Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
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Teaching programming in context, i.e. having students learning how to program by manipulating artifacts of a familiar domain (e.g. images, card games), has demonstrated convincing results in terms of raising student retention and interest in CS. This paper presents a pedagogical environment for teaching Java in context that is extensible with respect to the domains it supports. Instructors model domains and develop visualization widgets for rendering their objects. In turn, students use the environment to visualize and manipulate objects of the domain when solving exercises. The advantage and originality of the proposed environment is that it embodies an open-ended platform for creating diverse contexts at a low cost, standing as an enabler for widening the spectrum of abstractions for programming in context.