Backround Readings
JAWAA: Easy Web-Based Animation from CS 0 to Advanced CS Courses.
Akingbadez, Ayonike,
Thomas Finley, Diana Jackson, Pretesh Patel, and Susan H. Rodger. Department of Computer Science, Duke University. 2003.
Social Networks Generate Interest in Computer Science
Alt, Casey, Owen Astrachan, Jeffrey Forbes, Richard Lucic, and Susan Rodger,
thirty- seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2006 (p. 438-442).
Tools for
Teaching Introductory Programming: What Works?
Cooper, Steven, Kenneth J. Goldman, Martin Carlisle, Myles McNally, and Viera Proulx, presented at SIGCSE 2006.
ALICE: A 3-D TOOL FOR INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS
Teaching Objects-first
In Introductory Computer Science
Stephen Cooper Saint Joseph's University scooper@sju.edu, Wanda Dann Ithaca College
wpdann@ithaca.edu, Randy Pausch Carnegie Mellon University pausch@cmu.edu
Developing Algorithmic Thinking With Alice
By: Steven Cooper, Wanda Dann, and Randy Pausch.
Presented at ISECON, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 2000.
Using Visualization To Teach Novices Recursion
By: Wanda Dann Computer Science Dept. Ithaca College wpdann@Ithaca.edu
Objects: Visualization of Behavior and State
Wanda Dann, Toby Dragon Computer Science Dept, Ithaca
College, wpdann@ithaca.edu
Stephen Cooper, Kevin Dietzler, Kathleen Ryan, Computer Science Dept. scooper@sju.edu
Randy Pausch Computer Science Dept. Carnegie Mellon University,pausch@cs.cmu.edu
Introducing Computer Science Through Animation and Virtual
Susan
H. Rodger Department of Computer Science Duke Universityrodger@cs.duke.edu
Important links
Link to StoryTelling Alice
http://www.alice.org/kelleher/storytelling