%0 Conference Paper %1 GarCan10 %A Garlick, Ryan %A Cankaya, Ebru Celikel %B ITiCSE '10: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education %C New York, NY, USA %D 2010 %I ACM %K alice cs1 experiment jypeli programming quantitative teaching %P 165--168 %R 10.1145/1822090.1822138 %T Using Alice in CS1: A Quantitative Experiment %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1822090.1822138 %X We present the results of a 2-semester study of using the 3-D graphical programming environment Alice to introduce programming fundamentals during the first two weeks of CS1. One cohort of students was taught basic programming constructs via traditional pseudocode, while a second group used Alice. A student survey was collected, along with performance metrics on a common quiz and first exam. %@ 978-1-60558-729-5

@inproceedings{GarCan10, abstract = {We present the results of a 2-semester study of using the 3-D graphical programming environment Alice to introduce programming fundamentals during the first two weeks of CS1. One cohort of students was taught basic programming constructs via traditional pseudocode, while a second group used Alice. A student survey was collected, along with performance metrics on a common quiz and first exam.}, added-at = {2010-09-01T12:40:17.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Garlick, Ryan and Cankaya, Ebru Celikel}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a34d162c78f1039470f59feaf675a9da/ajlakanen}, booktitle = {ITiCSE '10: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education}, description = {Using alice in CS1}, doi = {10.1145/1822090.1822138}, interhash = {f0a8762ff9d83931c85ca81c138fd925}, intrahash = {a34d162c78f1039470f59feaf675a9da}, isbn = {978-1-60558-729-5}, keywords = {alice cs1 experiment jypeli programming quantitative teaching}, location = {Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey}, pages = {165--168}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2012-09-06T12:26:04.000+0200}, title = {Using {A}lice in CS1: A Quantitative Experiment}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1822090.1822138}, year = 2010 }