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Is there some meaningful percentage of students who can't learn to program?

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Advances in CS appropriate for CS1 and CS2 made by female computer scientists

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

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Teaching the humble for loop

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How do I convince my students that visual programming is real programming?

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What autograding software do folks use for Java code?

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Note-taking policy: laptops, or by hand?

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Introducing file systems to students who really don't understand

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Cheating on labs

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Dealing with students who complete labs very quickly

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Teaching students to hunt for and debug their own errors

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How can I speed up the construction of high quality testing materials?

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8 answers

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What would be a good analogy for IP addresses and ports?

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CS-oriented Ice-Breaker Games

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How do I teach ethics in hacking?

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How to illustrate scope problem when creating variables inside `if` statements in Java

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Intuitive example of an NP problem

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Books that summarize pedagogical research within our field

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Scheme vs Haskell for introducing functional programming

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Objects Lab Before Inheritance and Polymorphism

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Video Games during class

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Teaching loop invariant choice

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Unit Review for boolean algebra

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Ways to advance the field of computer science education as a non-researcher

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6 answers

353 views

Quizzes after lectures

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3 answers

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Gifted Student Presentations

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The order of questions on examinations

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Justification for an objects-early approach to introductory programming

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775 views

Analogy for abstract classes

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Teaching Induction to Prove the Correctness of Algorithms

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75 Questions

Is there some meaningful percentage of students who can't learn to program?

Advances in CS appropriate for CS1 and CS2 made by female computer scientists

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

Teaching the humble for loop

How do I convince my students that visual programming is real programming?

What autograding software do folks use for Java code?

Note-taking policy: laptops, or by hand?

Introducing file systems to students who really don't understand

Cheating on labs

Dealing with students who complete labs very quickly

Teaching students to hunt for and debug their own errors

How can I speed up the construction of high quality testing materials?

What would be a good analogy for IP addresses and ports?

CS-oriented Ice-Breaker Games

How do I teach ethics in hacking?

How to illustrate scope problem when creating variables inside `if` statements in Java

Intuitive example of an NP problem

Books that summarize pedagogical research within our field

Scheme vs Haskell for introducing functional programming

Objects Lab Before Inheritance and Polymorphism

Video Games during class

Teaching loop invariant choice

Unit Review for boolean algebra

Ways to advance the field of computer science education as a non-researcher

Quizzes after lectures

Gifted Student Presentations

The order of questions on examinations

Justification for an objects-early approach to introductory programming

Analogy for abstract classes

Teaching Induction to Prove the Correctness of Algorithms