The success of the demidovich-principle in undergraduate C# programming education

Author

Schulze, Jörg ; Längrich, Matthias ; Meyer, Antje

Author_Institution

Univ. of Appl. Sci. Zittau/Gorlitz, Gorlitz

fYear

2007

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2007

Abstract

It is widely known that graduates of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) are very qualified and highly skilled in the craft of mathematics. Is it possible to transfer the exercise-methods from the MSU, which we call the Demidovich-principle like the author from a famous mathematical task-collection book, to a fundamental college programming course to achieve an improvement in the quality of education? This article characterizes how this is possible and how to solve the arising problems with respect to didactical and pedagogical aspects. Evaluation results of the new designed exercise will also be given.

Keywords

C language; computer science education; educational courses; Demidovich principle; college programming course; undergraduate C# programming education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical model; Mathematical programming; Mathematics; Programming profession; Psychology; Switches; Testing; Automated Grading; CS1; Exercises; Pedagogy; Programming Fundamentals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers In Education Conference - Global Engineering: Knowledge Without Borders, Opportunities Without Passports, 2007. FIE '07. 37th Annual

Conference_Location

Milwaukee, WI

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1083-5

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2007.4418090

Filename

4418090