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Diagramming Encouragement in CS1 Textbooks

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Syeda Fatema Mazumder,

Celine Latulipe,

Manuel A. Pérez-QuiñonesAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3393976

Published: 15 June 2020 Publication History

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Drawing is an effective learning tool, incorporating engagement, increasing recall, and improving problem-solving skills. However, it is not widely practiced by computer science educators. This poster reports an analysis of 15 commonly used CS1 textbooks to investigate whether authors encourage students to draw basic programming concepts. One CS1 textbook contained textual encouragement to draw class diagrams and exercises to draw UML diagrams. One other book asked students to graphically represent a class object. We found no encouragement or instructions to draw variables or arrays.

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Diagramming Encouragement in CS1 Textbooks
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        CS1

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ITiCSE '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

June 2020

615 pages

ISBN:9781450368742

DOI:10.1145/3341525

General Chairs:
Michail Giannakos
NTNU, Norway
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Guttorm Sindre
Excited/NTNU, Norway
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University of Auckland, NZ
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Monica Divitini
NTNU, Norway

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