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Working group reports on ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
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The school subject information technology: a South African perspective
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Adaptation of team-based learning on a first term programming class
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Analysis of research into the teaching and learning of programming
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A proposal for a new communication medium in the classroom
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Proposal for a new strategy to practice programming
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A people-first approach to programming
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Jype - a program visualization and programming exercise tool for Python
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Deciding to major in computer science: a grounded theory of students' self-assessment of ability
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Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
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ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
Addressing teachers' concerns about the Prog&Play serious game with context adaptation
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Proceedings of the 13th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research
Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Team-based learning in a data structures course
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
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This study focuses on CS minor students' decisions to drop out from the CS1 course. The high level of drop out percentage has been a problem at Helsinki University of Technology for many years. This course has yearly enrolment of 500-600 students and the drop out percentage has varied from 30-50 percents.Since we did not have clear picture of drop out reasons we conducted a qualitative interview research in which 18 dropouts from the CS1 course were interviewed. The reasons of drop out were categorized and, in addition, each case was investigated individually. This procedure enabled us to both list the reasons and to reveal the cumulative nature of drop out reasons.The results indicate that several reasons affect students' decision to quit the CS1 course. The most frequent reasons were the lack of time and the lack of motivation. However, both of these reasons were in turn affected by factors, such as the perceived difficulty of the course, general difficulties with time managing and planning studies, or the decision to prefer something else. Furthermore, low comfort level and plagiarism played a role in drop out. In addition, drop out reasons cumulated.This study shows that the complexity and large variety of factors involved in students' decision to drop the course. This indicates that simple actions to improve teaching or organization on a CS1 course to reduce drop out may be ineffective. Efficient intervention to the problem apparently requires a combination of many different actions that take into consideration the versatile nature of reasons involved in drop out.