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Live programming as a lecture technique

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Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 18, Issue 2

Pages 51 - 56

Published: 01 December 2002 Publication History

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The Computer Science Department at Montana State University offered a 2 credit Java seminar each Spring Semester from 1997 through 2001. Our students were taught Ada and C++ at the time so the purpose of the seminar was to provide a fairly sophisticated introduction to the Java programming language. In the seminar, students worked on a semester long project that culminated in a networked version of a two person game that could be played on the World Wide Web. Starting in Fall Semester, 2001, the Java seminar was no longer necessary because our department decided to use Java as its introductory programming language instead of Ada.I had the privilege of teaching the seminar during each of its five offerings. By the fifth and final offering in Spring Semester, 2001, the seminar incorporated many unique elements including a live programming lecture technique, no required textbook and a semester long project. In this paper, I will evaluate each of these features using student surveys that I constructed. Special attention will be paid to the live programming aspect of the course.

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Index Terms

Live programming as a lecture technique
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 18, Issue 2

December 2002

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