Teaching Computer Science in a web-based environment

Author

Cisar, Sanja Maravic ; Pinter, Robert ; Cisar, Petar ; Radosav, Dragica

Author_Institution

Subotica Tech-Coll. of Appl. Sci., Subotica, Serbia

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

415

Lastpage

418

Abstract

Programming is a major subject in Computer Science (CS) departments. However, students often face difficulties on the basic programming courses due to several factors that cause these difficulties. Maybe the most important reason is the lack of problem solving abilities that many students show. This paper describes the web-based environment Pex4Fun from Microsoft Research for teaching computer science. Pex4Fun can be used to teach and learn computer programming at many levels, from high school all the way through graduate courses. Pex4Fun was experimentally used for learning Visual Basic with college students, the results of which are presented in this paper.

Keywords

Internet; Visual BASIC; computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; CS departments; Microsoft Research; Visual Basic learning; Web based environment; computer programming learning; graduate courses; programming courses; teaching computer science; Education; Encoding; Problem-solving; Programming profession; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY), 2013 IEEE 11th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Subotica

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0303-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SISY.2013.6662613

Filename

6662613