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A teamwork-based approach to programming fundamentals with scheme, smalltalk & java

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In October 2004 the University of Lugano in southern Switzerland established a new faculty of informatics. Its founding principles are innovation in teaching and faculty participation in the research community. With respect to teaching, students spend mornings attending lectures and afternoons in an Atelier designed to support interaction both among students and with the instructors. In teaching the first year "Programming Fundamentals" courses, we took advantage of the clean slate nature of the faculty to introduce innovative teaching elements. The novel aspects include our use of Scheme, Smalltalk, and Java, our combination of individual, pair and group projects and the integration of expert lectures to introduce useful, but slightly orthogonal elements at key points in the semester. Our very positive experience is reported along with a discussion of aspects to improve in the future.

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      ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
      May 2008
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      • (2015)Combining mastery learning with project-based learning in a first programming courseProceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 210.5555/2819009.2819059(315-318)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
      • (2015)Combining Mastery Learning with Project-Based Learning in a First Programming Course: An Experience Report2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering10.1109/ICSE.2015.163(315-318)Online publication date: May-2015
      • (2008)The JavaFestProceedings of the 6th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java10.1145/1411732.1411734(3-12)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2008

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