Visualize and Open Up

Visualize and Open Up

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 vis...

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Main Authors: Michela PEDRONI, Till G. BAY
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University 2007-04-01
Series:Informatics in Education
Subjects:
CS1
introductory programming
open assignments
visualization
multi-media
Online Access:http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/pdf/INFE098.pdf
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spelling doaj-79b8eb49da38410bbdc4f0cdb7b201042021-01-02T13:12:05ZengVilnius UniversityInformatics in Education1648-58312007-04-0161153162Visualize and Open UpMichela PEDRONI0Till G. BAY1Chair of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Chair of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 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.http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/pdf/INFE098.pdfCS1introductory programmingopen assignmentsvisualizationmulti-media
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open assignments
visualization
multi-media
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title Visualize and Open Up
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series Informatics in Education
issn 1648-5831
publishDate 2007-04-01
description 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.
topic CS1
introductory programming
open assignments
visualization
multi-media
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