Mark Guzdial
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Mark Guzdial questions the practice of teaching programming to new CS students by having them practice programming largely on their own.
- Kirschner, P.A., Sweller, J., and Clark, R.E. (2006) Why minimal guidance during instruction does not work: an analysis of the failure of constructivist, discovery, problem-based, experiential, and inquiry-based teaching. Educational Psychologist 41 (2) 75--86. http://bit.ly/1BASeOhGoogle Scholar
Cross Ref
- Sweller, J., and Cooper, G.A. (1985) The use of worked examples as a substitute for problem solving in learning algebra Cognition and Instruction 2 (1): 59--89. http://bit.ly/1rXzBUvGoogle Scholar
Index Terms
- What's the best way to teach computer science to beginners?
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