A Scratch-based CS0 course for at-risk computer science majors

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rizvi, Mona ^a   Humphries, Thorna ^a  

^a NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CS0; retention; Scratch

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE; CS0; FORMAL STUDIES; HIGH RATE; HIGH SCHOOL; MATHEMATICS PLACEMENTS; RETENTION; SCRATCH; TARGET GROUP;

STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84874729860     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462491     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. BYOB website, http://byob.berkeley.edu/, retrieved April 10, 2012.
2. S. Cooper, W. Dann, and R. Pausch,"Alice: A 3-D tool for introductory programming concepts", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 15(5), pp.108-117, 2000.
3. S. Cooper,"The design of Alice", ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 10(4), Article 15, November 2010.
4. "CS0: The beauty, joy, and awe of computing", http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/news/cso.pdf, retrieved April 10, 2012.
5. "CS39N: The beauty and joy of computing", course website, http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/-cs10/sp12/, retrieved April 14, 2012.
6. M. Guzdial, and E. Soloway,"Teaching the Nintendo generation to program", Communications of the ACM, 45(4), pp. 17-21, 2002.
7. M. Guzdial, Introduction to Media Computation: A Multimedia Cookbook in Python, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.
8. M. Kolling,"The Greenfoot programming environment", ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 10(4), Article 14, November 2010.
9. I. Kereki,"Scratch: Applications in computer science 1", 38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008.
10. D. Malan and H. Leitner,"Scratch for budding computer scientists", SIGSCE'07, Covington, KY, pp. 223-227, 2007.
11. J. Maloney, M. Resnick, N. Rusk, B. Silverman and E. Eastmond,"The Scratch programming language and environment", ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 10(4), Article 16, November 2010.
12. B. Moskal, D. Lurie, and S. Cooper,"Evaluating the effectiveness of a new instructional approach", SIGCSE'04, Norfolk, VA, pp. 75-79, 2004.
13. M. Resnick, J. Maloney, A.Monroy-Hernandez, N. Rusk, E. Eastmond, K. Brennan, A. Millner, E. Rosenbaum, J. Silver, B. Silverman, and Y. Kafai,"Scratch programming for all", Communications of the ACM, 52(11), pp. 60-67, 2009.
14. M. Rizvi, T. Humphries, D. Major, M. Jones, and H. Lauzun," A CSO Course Using Scratch", The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 26(3), pp. 19-27, January 2011.
15. M. Rizvi, T. Humphries, D. Major, M. Jones, and H. Lauzun,"A New CS0 Course for At-Risk Majors", The Proceedings of the 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2011.
16. Scratch website. http://scratch.mit.edu/, retrieved April 14, 2012.
17. R. Sloan and P. Troy,"CS 0.5: A better approach to introductory computer science for majors", SIGCSE 08, Portland, OR, March 2008.
18. U. Wolz, H. Leitner, D. Malan, and J. Maloney,"Starting with Scratch in CS 1", SIGCSE'09, Chattanooga, TN, 2-3, 2009.