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

asked Oct 30, 2017 at 18:27

74 votes

18 answers

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

asked Jul 10, 2017 at 18:41

68 votes

21 answers

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

asked Jan 9, 2018 at 21:39

41 votes

14 answers

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Teaching the humble for loop

asked Jul 13, 2017 at 21:10

29 votes

14 answers

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

asked Jun 20, 2017 at 10:20

25 votes

8 answers

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What autograding software do folks use for Java code?

asked May 23, 2017 at 14:20

24 votes

16 answers

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Note-taking policy: laptops, or by hand?

asked Jun 1, 2017 at 2:09

24 votes

3 answers

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Introducing file systems to students who really don't understand

asked Sep 5, 2017 at 21:29

21 votes

11 answers

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Cheating on labs

asked May 23, 2017 at 14:51

17 votes

12 answers

3k views

Dealing with students who complete labs very quickly

asked May 26, 2017 at 17:42

16 votes

5 answers

997 views

Teaching students to hunt for and debug their own errors

asked May 26, 2017 at 14:00

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5 answers

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

asked Apr 16, 2018 at 17:06

14 votes

8 answers

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

asked Jul 1, 2017 at 23:27

12 votes

10 answers

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CS-oriented Ice-Breaker Games

asked Jul 12, 2017 at 21:22

11 votes

6 answers

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How do I teach ethics in hacking?

asked Jun 25, 2017 at 3:38

11 votes

7 answers

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

asked May 30, 2017 at 23:54

11 votes

4 answers

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Scheme vs Haskell for introducing functional programming

asked May 24, 2017 at 1:45

11 votes

7 answers

491 views

Intuitive example of an NP problem

asked Jun 16, 2017 at 13:34

10 votes

2 answers

179 views

Books that summarize pedagogical research within our field

asked Aug 7, 2017 at 1:20

9 votes

3 answers

447 views

Unit Review for boolean algebra

asked Jul 7, 2017 at 2:36

9 votes

11 answers

670 views

Objects Lab Before Inheritance and Polymorphism

asked May 23, 2017 at 14:21

9 votes

2 answers

483 views

Video Games during class

asked Jun 1, 2017 at 13:33

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7 answers

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Teaching loop invariant choice

asked Jun 5, 2017 at 14:11

9 votes

4 answers

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

asked Aug 12, 2017 at 23:35

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6 answers

494 views

Quizzes after lectures

asked Jan 25, 2019 at 17:42

8 votes

3 answers

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Gifted Student Presentations

asked Sep 20, 2017 at 20:09

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1 answer

120 views

The order of questions on examinations

asked Dec 20, 2017 at 20:52

8 votes

6 answers

867 views

Analogy for abstract classes

asked Jun 9, 2017 at 16:09

8 votes

3 answers

396 views

Teaching Induction to Prove the Correctness of Algorithms

asked May 23, 2017 at 14:24

8 votes

9 answers

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Justification for an objects-early approach to introductory programming

asked Jun 14, 2017 at 19:54

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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

Scheme vs Haskell for introducing functional programming

Intuitive example of an NP problem

Books that summarize pedagogical research within our field

Unit Review for boolean algebra

Objects Lab Before Inheritance and Polymorphism

Video Games during class

Teaching loop invariant choice

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

Analogy for abstract classes

Teaching Induction to Prove the Correctness of Algorithms

Justification for an objects-early approach to introductory programming