Active Learning Applied to Introductory Programming
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Keywords-- active learning, introductory programming
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Active Learning Applied to Introductory Programming | ||
| Published in: | Proceedings of the 13th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology: Engineering Education Facing the Grand Challenges, What Are We Doing? | |
| Date of Conference: | July 29 - 31, 2015 | |
| Location of Conference: | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |
| Authors: | Jeffrey Duffany | |
| Refereed Paper: | #246 | |
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| Over the past few decades there has been a
movement to try to incorporate active learning techniques into
traditional university classes. The main idea is that traditional
classroom learning is very passive with the professor lecturing
and the students listening. Active learning tries to engage
students with a variety of techniques which are mainly variations
of traditional teaching techniques. This paper provides an
overview of how active learning techniques might be applied to
introductory programming classes and gives several specific
examples of how this might be done.
Keywords-- active learning, introductory programming | ||