News from the SIGs
In this issue of News from the SIGs, we present news from SIGCSE and SIGITE. Amber Settle, Chair of SIGCSE discusses the benefits of SIGCSE for practitioners and highlights some resources. Steven Zilora reflects on the growth and maturity of SIGITE as he ...
Apps for everyone: mobile accessibility learning modules
Mobile applications (apps) should be accessible to everyone, yet many of even the most popular are not. To address the lack of accessibility problem, we created a set of educational modules. These modules may be used to teach students and developers ...
The introductory computer programming course is first and foremost a language course
An fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) study published in 2014 established that comprehension of computer programs occurs in the same regions of the brain that process natural languages---not logic, not math. The unexpectedness of this result ...
Evaluation of native and transfer students' success in a computer science course
This study is motivated by a practical question faced by a computer science curriculum committee at a major research university. And that question is, are students who transfer credits for the first two courses into the computer science program at a ...
The persistent effect of pre-college computing experience on college CS course grades
Many college computer science majors have little or no pre-college computing experience. Previous work has shown that inexperienced students under-perform their experienced peers when placed in the same introductory courses and are more likely to drop ...
Computational thinking for all: an experience report on scaling up teaching computational thinking to all students in a major city in Sweden
The Swedish government has recently introduced digital competence including programming in the Swedish K-9 curriculum starting no later than fall 2018. This means that 100 000 teachers need to learn programming and digital competence in less than a year. ...
Upward mobility for underrepresented students: a model for a cohort-based bachelor's degree in computer science
- Sathya Narayanan,
- Kathryn Cunningham,
- Sonia Arteaga,
- William J. Welch,
- Leslie Maxwell,
- Zechariah Chawinga,
- Bude Su
CSin3 is a cohort-based, three-year computer science bachelor's degree program that has increased graduation rates of traditionally underrepresented computer science students. A collaborative effort between a community college and a public university, ...
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