"Digital Show-How": Extreme Active Learning for Introductory Programming

For the past ten years we have employed active learning methods in introductory programming classes at UNC Chapel Hill. In this report we present experience with one such method we call "digital show-how", in which students learn to program apprentice-fashion, by doing programming in class...

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Published in:International Conference on Computer Science & Education pp. 755 - 760
Main Author: Stotts, David
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.08.2019
Subjects:
active learning
apprentice
automated evaluation
Complexity theory
digital show-how
Education
Encoding
Java
low-stakes evaluation
pedagogy
programming education
Programming profession
Syntactics
teaching at scale
ISSN:2473-9464
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Summary:For the past ten years we have employed active learning methods in introductory programming classes at UNC Chapel Hill. In this report we present experience with one such method we call "digital show-how", in which students learn to program apprentice-fashion, by doing programming in class. Digital show-how is extreme active learning. Students do a lot of programming, in real-time, in class as the instructor shows them how. They get instant feedback on their work, and so have constant low-stakes assessments. We describe the goals for the classes, the tools and methods we have developed to support digital show-how, and the results we have measured on how well the goals are being met.
ISSN:2473-9464
DOI:10.1109/ICCSE.2019.8845066