Interesting basic problems for CS1

Judith Gal-Ezer; Dvir Lanzberg; Daphna Shahak

doi:10.1145/1026487.1008113

Interesting basic problems for CS1

Judith Gal-Ezer, Dvir Lanzberg, Daphna Shahak

Computer Science discipline

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The use of 'real world' problems, in place of 'toy problems', in CS1 to enhance the students' motivation in class is discussed. The difficulties teachers face while teaching CS1 to students is that very elementary, examples in an introductory course, do not motivate the students. It is also difficult to demonstrate basic concepts such as: efficiency, correctness, and modularity, using such 'toy problems'. The syntactic knowledge needed for solving these algorithmic problems is minimal: assignment, if statements and loops. In addition the algorithms introduced can often familiarize the students with sub-fields of computer science.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science
Pages	275
Number of pages	1
Volume	36
Edition	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1026487.1008113
State	Published - Sep 2004
Event	ITiCSE 2004 - 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - Leeds, United Kingdom Duration: 28 Jul 2004 → 30 Jul 2004

Publication series

Name	SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISSN (Print)	0097-8418

Conference

Conference	ITiCSE 2004 - 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Leeds
Period	28/07/04 → 30/07/04

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CS1
Exercises

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Gal-Ezer, J, Lanzberg, D & Shahak, D 2004, Interesting basic problems for CS1. in Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science. 3 edn, vol. 36, SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education), pp. 275, ITiCSE 2004 - 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Leeds, United Kingdom, 28/07/04. https://doi.org/10.1145/1026487.1008113

Interesting basic problems for CS1. / Gal-Ezer, Judith; Lanzberg, Dvir; Shahak, Daphna.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science. Vol. 36 3. ed. 2004. p. 275 (SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)).

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