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Integrating a Problem-Solving Methodology and Group Skills into CS1

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CSEE '96: Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Software Engineering Education

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Many industry leaders recognize the importance of introducing software engineering techniques and group skills into the curriculum early in a computer science program. The difficulty in accomplishing this lies partly in teaching topics such as logic, formal specification and problem solving to beginning students. This paper discusses ideas and techniques that can be used to teach these challenging topics and to integrate group skills into an undergraduate computer science introductory course.

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Prather JMargulieux LWhalley JDenny PReeves BBecker BSingh PPowell GBosch N(2022)Getting By With Help From My Friends: Group Study in Introductory Programming Understood as Socially Shared RegulationProceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 110.1145/3501385.3543970(164-176)Online publication date: 3-Aug-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501385.3543970

Integrating a Problem-Solving Methodology and Group Skills into CS1
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Prather JMargulieux LWhalley JDenny PReeves BBecker BSingh PPowell GBosch N(2022)Getting By With Help From My Friends: Group Study in Introductory Programming Understood as Socially Shared RegulationProceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 110.1145/3501385.3543970(164-176)Online publication date: 3-Aug-2022
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