Re: Choice of introductory programming language to a freshman class

2009-04-06 Thread Jan Erik Moström
em solving part that is of importance then you only have to give them an easy way of writing down their solution ... which pretty much rule out all three of these languages :-D Frankly I have difficulties in deciding which is "the least bad choice". jem -- Jan Erik Moström, http://mostrom.eu

RE: Choice of introductory programming language to a freshman class

2009-04-06 Thread Jan Erik Moström
On 09-04-06 at 15.14, Walter Milner wrote: A question to the OP: is it true that the choice must be between C, C++ and Java? Or might other languages be considered? Personally I would take a look at Python jem -- Jan Erik Moström, http://mostrom.eu

Re: introduction to programming - required skills

2009-04-07 Thread Jan Erik Moström
jem -- Jan Erik Moström, http://mostrom.eu

Looking for a reference on visualization and concurrency

2010-08-18 Thread Jan Erik Moström
A long, in fact a *very* long, time ago I think I read a paper that investigated if visual programming was as good as many claim it to be. If I remember correctly the conclusion of this paper was that it wasn't with the exception of concurrent programming on a 'high level', unfortunately I don't r

ESP Workshops: available online somewhere?

2011-04-21 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Hi all, I'm wonder if someone know if the ESP Workshop proceedings are available somewhere for download and offline reading? I got four of them in hardcopy (1,5,6,7) and I found the others on Google Books but I would like to know if they are available as PDFs somewhere. - jem -- The Open Univer

Re: Making empirical data code available

2012-02-21 Thread Jan Erik Moström
There was an attempt in doing something like this for the CSEd community a few years back: http://www8.cs.umu.se/~dcer/index.html There are also a few papers about this, for example http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1404520.1404534 and if I'm correct there was also a few actual research papers produced t

Re: emotions and programming

2013-02-17 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Hi, I don't know if this is what you're looking for but with have written some papers where we comment emotional reactions from students when learning to program. Not the major topic of the papers but a few things are there. - jem -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 0003