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Proglets for first-year programming in Java

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 41, Issue 2

Pages 108 - 112

https://doi.org/10.1145/1595453.1595486

Published: 25 June 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Applets are little applications. Proglets are little programs. The author advocates the use of proglets in first-year programming courses to encourage students to investigate aspects of the language being taught, to test (parts of) algorithms, and to have fun. The writing of proglets allows beginning students to concentrate on their current concerns without being overwhelmed by the requirement to write assignment quality programs worthy of a fully-trained software engineer. The author has used proglets during three semesters to help students in repeat offerings of first-year programming courses which used Java as the teaching language.

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Proglets for first-year programming in Java
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 41, Issue 2

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