Abstract: Contribution: The purpose of this study is: 1) to identify students’ early misconceptions in problem understanding and the use of variables/sequencing in a first-year computer programming ...

In February 2025, OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding.” Vibe coding refers to using AI to assist ...

Thinking about diving into the world of programming languages? It can seem a bit much at first, right? Well, there’s a book out there, the 12th edition of ‘Concepts of Programming Languages,’ that a ...

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ABSTRACT: Computer programming can be challenging for beginners because of the need to understand abstract programming concepts. In this paper, we study the use of the Second Life (SL) virtual world ...

Teaching K-12 coding without computers may seem like a daunting task, but it can be a powerful way to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of computer science and problem-solving without the ...

Functional programming means writing code in small, reusable pieces that don’t break things elsewhere. It keeps projects clean as they grow. Here’s how it changed my coding. Every programmer knows ...

Learning to code seems an increasingly practical skill in a digitizing world. Languages that were once known only to a few masters in their field are beginning to be democratized. However, not ...

The moment my daughter created her first project in Scratch – a simple animation of a cat chasing a butterfly – her relationship with the computer transformed completely. Suddenly, she wasn’t just ...

The Tufts Department of Computer Science has announced a major change in its curriculum, with the introductory course “Introduction to Computer Science” — or CS11 — now requiring students to have ...