DrJava: a lightweight pedagogic environment for Java
SIGCSE '02 Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Gender differences in computer science students
SIGCSE '03 Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Implications on the learning of programming through the implementation of subsets in program development environments
Taming a professional IDE for the classroom
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Understanding gender and confidence in CS course culture
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Evaluation of subsetting programming language elements in a novice's programming environment
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
A CS0 course for the liberal arts
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
ICER '08 Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research
Social networking: the new computer fluency?
Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Using alice in CS1: a quantitative experiment
Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Losing their marbles: syntax-free programming for assessing problem-solving skills
ACE '09 Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 95
Implementing IT0/CS0 with scratch, app inventor forandroid, and lego mindstorms
Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education
CS0 as an indicator of student risk for failure to complete a degree in computing
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Effectiveness of a computational thinking (CS0) course on student analytical skills
Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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In this paper, we report on an approach taken addressing the issue of the preparedness of students entering CS1. Specifically, we discuss the adoption of a first-day assessment test in lieu of completed course prerequisites for determining students' preparedness, and the development of a corresponding CS0 "fallback" course intended to provide the appropriate background for those students lacking the necessary programming reasoning skills, as indicated by assessment test results. We report here on the adequacy of the assessment test designed, the effectiveness of the CS0 course as targeted for CS1 success, and the perceptions of students as to the impact that the CS0 course has had on their ultimate success in CS1.