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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

Chattanooga, TN, USA

SESSION: Mental hygiene -- analysis and promotion of good CS work habits table of contents

Pages 296-300

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-183-5

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James B. Fenwick, Jr.	Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
Cindy Norris	Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
Frank E. Barry	Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
Josh Rountree	Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
Cole J. Spicer	Appalchian State University, Boone, NC, USA
Scott D. Cheek	Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper reports on the progress of an NSF funded research project investigating the development practices of students in introductory programming courses. In previous work, we describe our extension of the BlueJ IDE to capture events associated with program development. Here we report on data collected during the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 semesters on CS 1 students. In particular, we show that our data analysis independently confirms the results obtained in separate studies by Jadud [3, 2]. In addition we use our empirical evidence to discern some higher level "patterns" of beginning student programming behaviors including potential cheating and the impact on success of students starting projects late.

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	Stephen H. Edwards , Jason Snyder , Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones , Anthony Allevato , Dongkwan Kim , Betsy Tretola, Comparing effective and ineffective behaviors of student programmers, Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on Computing education research workshop, August 10-11, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA
	Matthew C. Jadud , Poul Henriksen, Flexible, reusable tools for studying novice programmers, Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on Computing education research workshop, August 10-11, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA