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- research-articleSeptember 2008
CS minors in a CS1 course
ICER '08: Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education ResearchPages 79–90https://doi.org/10.1145/1404520.1404529The focus of this paper is on science students (CS minors) in a CS1 Java course at a technical university. The following three questions are discussed: 1) Which programming related topics the students at the target CS1 course find difficult to learn, ...
- ArticleSeptember 2006
Why students drop out CS1 course?
ICER '06: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Computing education researchPages 97–108https://doi.org/10.1145/1151588.1151604This study focuses on CS minor students' decisions to drop out from the CS1 course. The high level of drop out percentage has been a problem at Helsinki University of Technology for many years. This course has yearly enrolment of 500-600 students and ...