CSE590D: Computer-Based Learning Environments
Welcome.
This quarter's activities include a mix of paper-reading and discussion, plus
presentations and discussions of the ongoing research of the participants.
The schedule is as follows:
- October 6: Organizational meeting.
- October 13: Brief presentations by participants of their current research and/or interests;
also, Rob Thompson will give a rehearsal of his 12-minute VL/HCC Graduate Consortium talk.
- October 20: No meeting this week due to VL/HCC 2015 in Atlanta taking place.
- October 27: Aaron leads a discussion of the paper
"Enabling Independent Learning of Programming Concepts through Programming Completion Puzzles" by
Kyle Harms, Noah Rowlett and Caitlin Kelleher
Post-workshop discussion after the Blocks-and-Beyond workshop in Atlanta.
- November 3: Rahul leads a discussion of the paper
"Perceptions of Non-CS Majors in Intro Programming: The Rise of the Conversational Programmer"
by
Parmit Chilana, Celena Alcock, Shruti Dembla, Anson Ho, Ada Hurst, Brett Armstrong and Philip Guo
Also, Erin leads a discussion of the paper
"Extending Scratch: New Pathways into Programming" by
Sayamindu Dasgupta, Shane Clements, Abdulrahman Y. Idlbi, Chris Willis-Ford and Mitchel Resnick
- November 10: Zhuming leads a discussion of the paper
"Codepourri: Creating Visual Coding Tutorials Using A Volunteer Crowd Of Learners"
by
Mitchell Gordon and Philip Guo;
Eric summarizes the ideas behind CodeOpticon.
Rob leads a discussion of the paper
"Codechella: Multi-User Program Visualizations for Real-Time Tutoring and Collaborative Learning" by
Philip Guo, Jeffery White and Renan Zanelatto
- November 17: Eric leads a discussion of the paper
"A Principled Evaluation for a Principled Idea Garden"
by
William Jernigan, Amber Horvath, Michael Lee, Margaret Burnett, Taylor Cuilty, Sandeep Kuttal, Anicia Peters, Irwin Kwan, Faezeh Bahmani and Andrew Ko
- November 24: Rob leads a discussion of "Natural Language and Programming: Designing Effective
Environments for Novices" by Judith Good and Kate Howland
- December 1: selected participant demos, plus continuing discussion of Good and Howland, plus
"Studying the language and structure in non-programmers' solutions to programming problems" by
John Pane, Chotirat Ratanamahatana, and Brad Myers
- December 8: TBA
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for earlier quarters.