• A cross-cultural review of lightbot for introducing functions and code reuse 

      Vidal Duarte, Elizabeth; Pearce L., Janice (Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2017-12-17)
      Functions and code reuse are often among the first topics that students find challenging in introductory programming courses. This paper describes the use of Lightbot to introduce students to these concepts in two ...
    • Extracting word clouds in Git repositories 

      Mendoza del Carpio, Paul (2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2017-06-21)
      Git based social coding platforms (e.g.; GitHub, BitBucket) have been broadly adopted by many open source projects, and have became an important source of technical and social information about software development. That ...
    • When the Robot Meets the Turtle: A Gentle Introduction to Algorithms and Functions 

      Vidal Duarte, Elizabeth; Castro Gutierrez, Eveling; Aedo, Marco (Tool, Tips, and Courseware ITiCSE '17, 2017-07-03)
      Educators have long been trying to motivate students in their introductory programming courses. Games help students to practice formulas, facts and processes, motivating learning by adding fun. This work describes our ...