C-Sheep: Controlling Entities in a 3D Virtual World as a Tool for Computer Science Education [PDF]
One of the challenges in teaching computer science in general and computer programming in particular is to maintain the interest of students, who often perceive the subject as difficult and tedious. To this end, we introduce C-Sheep, a mini-language-like
Anderson, Eike F., McLoughlin, L.
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Do Robots Dream of Virtual Sheep: Rediscovering the "Karel the Robot" Paradigm for the "Plug&Play Generation" [PDF]
We introduce ”C-Sheep”, an educational system designed to teach students the fundamentals of computer programming in a novel and exciting way. Recent studies suggest that computer science education is fast approaching a crisis - application numbers for ...
Anderson, Eike F., McLoughlin, L.
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A Computational Science Agenda for Programming Language Research [PDF]
AbstractScientific models are often expressed as large and complicated programs. These programs embody numerous assumptions made by the developer (e.g., for differential equations, the discretization strategy and resolution). The complexity and pervasiveness of these assumptionsmeans that often the only true description of the model is the software ...
Dominic A. Orchard, Andrew C. Rice
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Using generative programming to visualise hypercode in complex and dynamic systems [PDF]
The research presented here takes place in the context of the EC Funded ArchWare project which focuses on innovative architecture-centric languages, frameworks and tools for engineering evolvable software systems.
Balasubramaniam, Dharini +4 more
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Programming Languages and Systems [PDF]
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021.
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Introductory Computer Science Course by Adopting Many Programming Languages
Teaching programming logic by means of a single Programming Language (PL) may lead the whole process to a particular syntax and specific libraries. In order to let every student choose their preferred PL we have developed a method that includes didactic material in many PLs by means of notebooks in Colab.
Francisco de Assis Zampirolli +5 more
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Critters in the Classroom: A 3D Computer-Game-Like Tool for Teaching Programming to Computer Animation Students [PDF]
The brewing crisis threatening computer science education is a well documented fact. To counter this and to increase enrolment and retention in computer science related degrees, it has been suggested to make programming "more fun" and to offer ...
Anderson, Eike F. +3 more
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Programming Languages and Systems [PDF]
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2020, which was planned to take place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ...
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The Use of programming languages and computer software in psychological science
In the present paper, we review some programming languages and computer software used to investigate basic psychological processes. In the fi rst section, we address the principles and logical structure of the most common programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, Matlab, R, Python), and in the second section we present some of their applications to ...
Nelson Torro-Alves +4 more
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THE ROLE OF TEACHING THE PYTHON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN.
Informatics is currently the most changing in the field of educational content discipline, both among school disciplines and among subjects studied in universities and educational institutions of secondary vocational education.It should be noted that in at the moment, Pascal or Basic are being studied as programming languages, in connection with which ...
Amirov Jaras, Shukirillaev Naurizbay
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