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What could be the possible advantages of teaching Scheme as first programming language?
Awarded Jun 1, 2022 at 20:42
If a program does not compile, should it get a mark of zero?
Awarded May 13, 2022 at 8:27
Problems with students stuck in web-browser and what to do about it
Awarded Feb 19, 2022 at 19:31
What controversies in computer science education exist today?
Awarded Dec 17, 2021 at 19:26
How can I help my students to think algorithmically?
Awarded Jul 21, 2021 at 23:32
IDE vs Editor and terminal for CS1
Awarded Feb 10, 2021 at 6:51
What program follows "hello, world"?
Awarded Feb 4, 2021 at 8:57
How important is learning Binary for first-year college students?
Awarded Jan 19, 2021 at 12:33
Is it a good idea to teach algorithm courses using pseudocode instead of a real programming language?
Awarded Jan 6, 2021 at 12:02
What autograding software do folks use for Java code?
Awarded Dec 7, 2020 at 13:35
Why is computer science hard?
Awarded Nov 19, 2020 at 0:02
What are some good examples of using a stack data structure?
Awarded Oct 25, 2020 at 18:05
When mentoring individuals, teach clean coding and simple/effective thinking or let them do it their way?
Awarded Sep 2, 2020 at 3:43
What thought process would lead one to invent object-oriented programming?
Awarded May 31, 2020 at 5:26
How can I automate the grading of programming assignments?
Awarded Jan 24, 2020 at 9:45
Programming languages specifically designed for beginners
Awarded Aug 4, 2019 at 1:15
How can I get through very long and very dry, but also very useful technical documents when learning a new tool?
Awarded May 4, 2019 at 19:10
Why do computer-science majors learn calculus?
Awarded Apr 29, 2019 at 7:35
How bad is a Computer Science course that doesn't teach Design Patterns?
Awarded Feb 20, 2019 at 8:15
Once implicit/inferred typing is introduced, how can I impress upon students the importance of not abusing it?
Awarded Dec 29, 2018 at 15:25
How do I teach "math equality" vs. "CS assignment" vs. "CS equality logic operator"?
Awarded Dec 29, 2018 at 15:25
What is good age to start learning programming?
Awarded Nov 12, 2018 at 6:45
Teaching binary to 6-8 year olds
Awarded Nov 5, 2018 at 23:20
How to respond when students ask "is recursion good practice"?
Awarded Oct 14, 2018 at 0:10
When a student submits a work that is a copy from a colleague, should you also punish the student that made the work?
Awarded Sep 11, 2018 at 14:02
Real life examples of 0-indexing
Awarded Sep 7, 2018 at 3:45
Why do we count starting from zero?
Awarded Sep 3, 2018 at 16:45
How do you deal with Lone Rangers in group projects?
Awarded Jul 20, 2018 at 12:39
What advantages do students who learn how to touch type have?
Awarded Jun 21, 2018 at 14:42
How to teach a person to enjoy programming?
Awarded May 18, 2018 at 20:14
Is it better to lie to students or to be pedantic when teaching Intro CS?
Awarded May 8, 2018 at 16:48
Interesting Programming Exercises to Teach Inheritance?
Awarded May 2, 2018 at 17:10
How do I convince my students that visual programming is real programming?
Awarded Apr 12, 2018 at 22:47
What are healthy, productive ways to encourage students to progress to more advanced constructs as opposed to staying with the familiar?
Awarded Apr 11, 2018 at 15:37
How can we teach good naming practice for students learning Java?
Awarded Apr 11, 2018 at 5:40
How to help students avoid being distracted by bells and whistles
Awarded Mar 22, 2018 at 10:21
Is it bad to force my students not to return early?
Awarded Mar 11, 2018 at 19:47
Should I teach that 1 kB = 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes?
Awarded Mar 10, 2018 at 13:03
How do you teach something when you don't know it yourself?
Awarded Feb 27, 2018 at 18:47
How to explain the concept of a variable to a 9-year old?
Awarded Jan 22, 2018 at 17:49
What are good examples that actually motivate the study of recursion?
Awarded Jan 11, 2018 at 3:30
How to stop being The Oracle
Awarded Dec 14, 2017 at 23:24
Is there some meaningful percentage of students who can't learn to program?
Awarded Oct 31, 2017 at 16:39
Teaching students that printf() is not the same as return
Awarded Oct 9, 2017 at 0:54
How do I convince students to use Boolean algebra?
Awarded Sep 30, 2017 at 9:22
Is there any value in teaching goto statement or flowcharts?
Awarded Sep 29, 2017 at 12:54
Why don't more universities teach revision control?
Awarded Sep 12, 2017 at 22:18
How to teach Stack Overflow more efficiently?
Awarded Aug 28, 2017 at 9:20
Students can solve programming exercises but not explain their solutions. What to do?
Awarded Aug 24, 2017 at 13:45
Learning fundamental differences between functional programming and Object Oriented Programming
Awarded Aug 13, 2017 at 7:21
How to teach the importance of indentation
Awarded Aug 8, 2017 at 23:09
How to convey how much computing power has grown since the 1960s?
Awarded Aug 7, 2017 at 12:27
How do I teach git to a teenager
Awarded Jul 25, 2017 at 20:16
Why did the percentage of CS bachelor's degrees going to women peak in 1984?
Awarded Jul 24, 2017 at 22:18
Teaching the humble for loop
Awarded Jul 23, 2017 at 21:37
How to explain what code is to my parents?
Awarded Jul 18, 2017 at 23:08
Is it important to teach pointers in a first course using Java?
Awarded Jul 18, 2017 at 11:08
Advances in CS appropriate for CS1 and CS2 made by female computer scientists
Awarded Jul 11, 2017 at 15:01
How do you encourage students to take criticism of their code constructively?
Awarded Jul 7, 2017 at 21:48
Should test cases be made available to students for assessed assignments?
Awarded Jul 7, 2017 at 11:41
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