User Kevin Workman - Computer Science Educators Stack Exchange

Kevin Workman

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How to teach a person to enjoy programming?

answered May 17, 2018 at 17:07

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How to help students avoid being distracted by bells and whistles

answered Mar 19, 2018 at 20:48

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What are good examples that actually motivate the study of recursion?

answered Jan 9, 2018 at 22:04

20 votes

Assisting students with large programming assignments takes too long in class

answered Sep 7, 2017 at 21:09

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How can I determine if a student would enjoy or has an aptitude for CS?

answered Aug 11, 2017 at 18:56

12 votes

Programming language for teenagers

answered Jan 17, 2018 at 19:12

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Order to Teach Topics in an Intro Programming Class

answered Jul 20, 2017 at 18:25

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Helping students adjust to using industrial-strength IDEs

answered Sep 5, 2017 at 18:44

9 votes

Why some students think that programming is difficult and hard to learn, how I convince my students that programming is not difficult as they think?

answered Nov 27, 2018 at 23:57

8 votes

Strategies for independent learners to identify gaps in their knowledge

answered Aug 12, 2017 at 1:10

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Is it important to teach pointers in a first course using Java?

answered Jul 17, 2017 at 16:23

8 votes

Which non-programming skills help make a good programmer?

answered Mar 15, 2018 at 23:19

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Are programming contests beneficial to students?

answered Jul 10, 2018 at 17:09

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Courage to Attack Difficult Questions

answered Jun 11, 2018 at 20:01

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Active learning for boolean algebra

answered Jul 19, 2017 at 0:35

7 votes

Dealing with students who are underly-motivated

answered Aug 1, 2017 at 17:05

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How to convey how much computing power has grown since the 1960s?

answered Aug 4, 2017 at 21:40

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Show students the consequences of their design decisions

answered Sep 11, 2017 at 17:31

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Why do educators not set an upper bound for the amount of times we're allowed to compile code?

answered Nov 30, 2018 at 17:45

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How can I get through very long and very dry, but also very useful technical documents when learning a new tool?

answered Mar 28, 2019 at 0:58

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Explaining to students why to use double instead of float (unless there's a very good reason)

answered Feb 13, 2018 at 18:05

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How to phrase questions about spotting design issues in programs

answered Mar 1, 2018 at 1:30

6 votes

Is it worthwhile to teach assembly nowadays?

answered Jan 22, 2018 at 17:57

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One lecture on VCS: What needs to be covered?

answered Sep 12, 2017 at 21:33

5 votes

How to motivate game design/development students to do more than the minimum on homework

answered Sep 19, 2017 at 22:51

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Using Oracle's Java Documentation as a Teaching Tool

answered Jan 10, 2018 at 18:36

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My teacher said that java is pass-by-reference when the type is not a primitive

answered Mar 15, 2018 at 23:29

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What can CS educators do to help teachers of other subjects include computing in their teaching?

answered Sep 8, 2017 at 19:05

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Strategies for self-learners to transition into working on larger projects

answered Aug 14, 2017 at 23:04

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Lesson plan for teaching java graphics

answered Jul 19, 2017 at 16:44

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