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2. Why Computing Students Learn on Their Own: Motivation for Self-Directed Learning of Computing

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McCartney, Robert, Boustedt, Jonas, Eckerdal, Anna, Sanders, Kate, Thomas, Lynda, and Zander, Carol

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In this article, we address the question of why computing students choose to learn computing topics on their own. A better understanding of why some students choose to learn on their own may help us to motivate other students to develop this important skill. In addition, it may help in curriculum design; if we need to leave some topics out of our expanding curriculum, a good choice might be those topics that students readily learn on their own. Based on a thematic analysis of 17 semistructured interviews, we found that computing students' motivations for self-directed learning fall into four general themes: projects, social and peer interactions, joy of learning, and fear. Under these, we describe several more specific subthemes, illustrated in the words of the students. The project-related and social motivations are quite prominent. Although these motivations appear in the literature, they received greater emphasis from our interviewees. Perhaps most characteristic of computing is the motivation to learn to complete some project, both projects done for fun and projects required for school or work.

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2016
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3. Liminal Spaces and Learning Computing

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McCartney, Robert, Boustedt, Jonas, Eckerdal, Anna, Mostrom, Jan Erik, Sanders, Kate, Thomas, Lynda, and Zander, Carol

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"Threshold concepts" are concepts that, among other things, transform the way a student looks at a discipline. Although the term "threshold" might suggest that the transformation occurs at a specific point in time, an "aha" moment, it seems more common (at least in computing) that a longer time period is required. This time period is referred to as the "liminal space". In this paper, we summarise our findings concerning how computing students experience the liminal space and discuss how this might affect teaching. Most of our findings so far relate to software engineering. As it is likely that similar liminal spaces occur in other engineering disciplines, these findings have relevance across engineering education.

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2009
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4. Debugging: Finding, Fixing and Flailing, a Multi-Institutional Study of Novice Debuggers

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Fitzgerald, Sue, Lewandowski, Gary, McCauley, Renee, Murphy, Laurie, Simon, Beth, Thomas, Lynda, and Zander, Carol

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Debugging is often difficult and frustrating for novices. Yet because students typically debug outside the classroom and often in isolation, instructors rarely have the opportunity to closely observe students while they debug. This paper describes the details of an exploratory study of the debugging skills and behaviors of contemporary novice Java programmers. Based on a modified replication of Katz and Anderson's study of novices, we sought to broadly survey the modern landscape of novice debugging abilities. As such, this study reports general quantitative results and fills in the picture with qualitative detail from a relatively small, but varied sample. Comprehensive interviews involving both a programming and a debugging task, followed by a semi-structured interview and a questionnaire, were conducted with 21 CS2 students at seven colleges and universities. While many subjects successfully debugged a representative set of typical CS1 bugs, there was a great deal of variation in their success at the programming and debugging tasks. Most of the students who were good debuggers were good novice programmers, although not all of the good programmers were successful at debugging. Students employed a variety of strategies to find 70% of all bugs and of the bugs they found they were able to fix 97% of them. They had the most difficulty with malformed statements, such as arithmetic errors and incorrect loop conditions. Our results confirm many findings from previous studies (some quite old)--most notably that once students find bugs, they can fix them. However, the results also suggest that some changes have occurred in the student population, particularly an increased use of debugging tools and online resources, as well as the use of pattern matching, which has not previously been reported. (Contains 4 tables, 5 figures, and 1 note.)

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2008
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6. Threshold Concepts in Computer Science

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Thomas, Lynda, primary, Boustedt, Jonas, additional, Eckerdal, Anna, additional, McCartney, Robert, additional, Moström, Jan Erik, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2010
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9. Copying Can Be Good

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Zander, Carol, primary, Eckerdal, Anna, additional, McCartney, Robert, additional, Mostrom, Jan Erik, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, and Thomas, Lynda, additional

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2019
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10. Folk Pedagogy

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Sanders, Kate, primary, Boustedt, Jonas, additional, Eckerdal, Anna, additional, McCartney, Robert, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2017
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14. Graduating students' designs

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Thomas, Lynda, primary, Eckerdal, Anna, additional, McCartney, Robert, additional, Moström, Jan Erik, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2014
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16. Self-directed learning

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Zander, Carol, primary, Boustedt, Jonas, additional, Eckerdal, Anna, additional, McCartney, Robert, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, Moström, Jan Erik, additional, and Thomas, Lynda, additional

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2012
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24. Student transformations

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Zander, Carol, primary, Boustedt, Jonas, additional, McCartney, Robert, additional, Moström, Jan Erik, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, and Thomas, Lynda, additional

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2009
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25. For me, programming is ...

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Simon, Beth, primary, Hanks, Brian, additional, McCauley, Renée, additional, Morrison, Briana, additional, Murphy, Laurie, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2009
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26. Liminal spaces and learning computing

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McCartney, Robert, primary, Boustedt, Jonas, additional, Eckerdal, Anna, additional, Moström, Jan Erik, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, Thomas, Lynda, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2009
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27. Computer science student transformations

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Moström, Jan Erik, primary, Boustedt, Jonas, additional, Eckerdal, Anna, additional, McCartney, Robert, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, Thomas, Lynda, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2009
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28. Learning styles

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Zander, Carol, primary, Thomas, Lynda, additional, Simon, Beth, additional, Murphy, Laurie, additional, McCauley, Renée, additional, Hanks, Brian, additional, and Fitzgerald, Sue, additional

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2009
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29. CS1 students speak

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Hanks, Brian, primary, Murphy, Laurie, additional, Simon, Beth, additional, McCauley, Renée, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2009
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30. A Very Large Area Network (VLAN) knowledge-base applied to space communication problems

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Zander, Carol S

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Communications And Radar
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This paper first describes a hierarchical model for very large area networks (VLAN). Space communication problems whose solution could profit by the model are discussed and then an enhanced version of this model incorporating the knowledge needed for the missile detection-destruction problem is presented. A satellite network or VLAN is a network which includes at least one satellite. Due to the complexity, a compromise between fully centralized and fully distributed network management has been adopted. Network nodes are assigned to a physically localized group, called a partition. Partitions consist of groups of cell nodes with one cell node acting as the organizer or master, called the Group Master (GM). Coordinating the group masters is a Partition Master (PM). Knowledge is also distributed hierarchically existing in at least two nodes. Each satellite node has a back-up earth node. Knowledge must be distributed in such a way so as to minimize information loss when a node fails. Thus the model is hierarchical both physically and informationally.

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1988

32. Saying isn't necessarily believing

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Simon, Beth, primary, Hanks, Brian, additional, Murphy, Laurie, additional, Fitzgerald, Sue, additional, McCauley, Renée, additional, Thomas, Lynda, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2008
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35. Games

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Haller, Susan, primary, Ladd, Brian, additional, Leutenegger, Scott, additional, Nordlinger, John, additional, Paul, Jody, additional, Walker, Henry, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2008
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36. Debugging

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Murphy, Laurie, primary, Lewandowski, Gary, additional, McCauley, Renée, additional, Simon, Beth, additional, Thomas, Lynda, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2008
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38. From Limen to Lumen

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Eckerdal, Anna, primary, McCartney, Robert, additional, Moström, Jan Erik, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, Thomas, Lynda, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2007
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40. Programming-lite

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Allen, Robert B., primary, Klappholz, David, additional, Wick, Michael R., additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2007
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41. Threshold concepts in computer science

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Boustedt, Jonas, primary, Eckerdal, Anna, additional, McCartney, Robert, additional, Moström, Jan Erik, additional, Ratcliffe, Mark, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2007
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42. It seemed like a good idea at the time

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Boustedt, Jonas, primary, McCartney, Robert, additional, Tenenberg, Josh, additional, Winters, Titus, additional, Edwards, Stephen, additional, Morrison, Briana B., additional, Musicant, David R., additional, Utting, Ian, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2007
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46. What do successful computer science students know? An integrative analysis using card sort measures and content analysis to evaluate graduating students' knowledge of programming concepts

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McCauley, Renee, primary, Murphy, Laurie, additional, Westbrook, Suzanne, additional, Haller, Susan, additional, Zander, Carol, additional, Fossum, Timothy, additional, Sanders, Kate, additional, Morrison, Briana, additional, Richards, Brad, additional, and Anderson, Ruth, additional

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2005
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47. A multi-institutional, multinational study of programming concepts using card sort data

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Sanders, Kate, primary, Fincher, Sally, additional, Bouvier, Dennis, additional, Lewandowski, Gary, additional, Morrison, Briana, additional, Murphy, Laurie, additional, Petre, Marian, additional, Richards, Brad, additional, Tenenberg, Josh, additional, Thomas, Lynda, additional, Anderson, Richard, additional, Anderson, Ruth, additional, Fitzgerald, Sue, additional, Gutschow, Alicia, additional, Haller, Susan, additional, Lister, Raymond, additional, McCauley, Renee, additional, McTaggart, John, additional, Prasad, Christine, additional, Scott, Terry, additional, Shinners-Kennedy, Dermot, additional, Westbrook, Suzanne, additional, and Zander, Carol, additional

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2005
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49. Learning styles.

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Zander, Carol, Thomas, Lynda, Simon, Beth, Murphy, Laurie, McCauley, Renée, Hanks, Brian, and Fitzgerald, Sue

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2009
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