Coping with Java as the core CS educational language: an evolutionary experience
L Ficocelli, D Gregg - Proceedings of the 16th Western Canadian …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
L Ficocelli, D Gregg
Proceedings of the 16th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, 2011•dl.acm.orgIn this paper, we describe the impact of changing our core CS1, CS2 programming
language to Java. We review some of the challenges encountered and their impact on
students' performance. After a faltering start using the Objects First methodology, we were
able to refocus our curriculum using a Fundamentals First approach which resulted in less
student frustration and lower course attrition. Over the course of the past decade Java has
slowly become a unifying thread through a significant number of programming courses in …
language to Java. We review some of the challenges encountered and their impact on
students' performance. After a faltering start using the Objects First methodology, we were
able to refocus our curriculum using a Fundamentals First approach which resulted in less
student frustration and lower course attrition. Over the course of the past decade Java has
slowly become a unifying thread through a significant number of programming courses in …
In this paper, we describe the impact of changing our core CS1, CS2 programming language to Java. We review some of the challenges encountered and their impact on students' performance. After a faltering start using the Objects First methodology, we were able to refocus our curriculum using a Fundamentals First approach which resulted in less student frustration and lower course attrition. Over the course of the past decade Java has slowly become a unifying thread through a significant number of programming courses in our diploma and university transfer computing science programs.
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