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We present five project assignments for teaching database concepts to undergraduate students in interdisciplinary degree programs, where teaching databases as a standalone course is not practical. The projects were developed for a CS2-level programming ...

Many instructors in introductory programming courses experience high dropout and failure rates. Identifying struggling students early is a prerequisite to target this problem. To this end, instructors and learning analytics researchers may leverage ...

In computing courses, instructor involvement and social comfort are vital for resilience and belonging. We examine engagement with instructor emails aimed at strengthening the connection with students. We sent weekly emails from instructors to first- and ...

To promote good coding practices, we need to understand what students do when they are on their own. In this research study, we explore students' testing behavior and response to persistent errors to better understand their coding patterns. We ...

Student-directed learning (SDL) is considered to be useful for fostering engagement, autonomy, freedom, and decision-making skills among students. However, incorporating SDL is a challenging task. Several learning strategies are implemented based on SDL. ...

While many studies have focused on students' performance in CS1 courses, research related to the performance and persistence of students in CS2 classes is not as widely performed. In this work, we will extend our previous work to examine students' ...

Despite instructors' best efforts in designing and delivering any given course, changes are likely required from time to time. This experience report presents the changes made in a second-year programming course for non-computing engineering majors over ...

The process of sharing content among instructors at different institutions is not straightforward. In most contexts, "shared" material is unidirectional: a more experienced instructor shares their materials with a more novice instructor; a book publisher ...

The introductory programming sequence has been the focus of much research in computing education. The recent advent of several viable and freely-available AI-driven code generation tools present several immediate opportunities and challenges in this ...

Previous work has reported on the advantageous effects of prior experience in CS1, but it remains unclear whether these effects fade over a sequence of introductory programming courses. Furthermore, while student perceptions suggest that prior experience ...

Studying students' prerequisites from one course to another is important to understand which areas can be improved to ensure a smoother progression. This poster presents a pilot to a longitudinal study investigating students' progression from CS1 to CS2 ...

Autograders have become an invaluable tool for instructors of computer programming courses. They not only ease the burden of manually grading many assignments, but more importantly provide students with a way to receive immediate feedback about their ...

Programming is learned through practice, with said practice in introductory programming courses often translating to a prohibitively large number of assignments, increasing the grading workload for faculty and/or teaching assistants. In short, this is ...

Discussion forums are invaluable resources when scaling up undergraduate CS courses to larger class sizes. However, passive incorporation of discussion forums is not a silver bullet, as these platforms tend to devolve into places of shallow engagement. ...

Evidence for the efficacy of exam wrappers has been varied, with some studies showing an improvement in grades and metacognition and others showing no evidence of improvement. The physical nature of wrappers makes implementation and study replication ...

This CS2 assignment asks students to implement a literal flood fill. Students are given a terrain containing bodies of water, then write a flood fill algorithm to determine what parts of the terrain will be under water as sea levels rise. Our provided ...

This Nifty Assignment submission outlines a programming in which students implement a simulator for the German Enigma machine from World War II-an encryption standard successfully broken by a team of mathematicians and engineers at Bletchley Park, ...

Introductory computer science courses are characterized by difficulty, which may contribute to the low success rate, diversity, and retention in these key courses. Difficulty in programming projects was found to result in negative self-efficacy ...

As enrollment in CS programs have risen, it has become increasingly difficult for teaching staff to provide timely and detailed guidance on student projects. To address this, instructors use automated assessment tools to evaluate students' code and ...

With the shift to online delivery, instructors looked to provide comparable help supports for students, especially for first-year learners who need timely assistance the most. Our work aims to understand student help seeking behavior and perception of ...