Group work support for the BlueJ IDE

Fisker, Kasper; McCall, Davin; Kölling, Michael; Quig, Bruce

doi:10.1145/1384271.1384316

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“…• Tools to help students write programs collaboratively, including distributed [86] as well as collocated and synchronous [212]; working on bite-sized programs [490] or objectsfirst programs [510]; and collaboration facilitated by similarities among student programs [72] • Peer assessment [110] and peer review [151] • Incorporating collaboration into existing environments such as Alice [11], BlueJ [207], and DrJava [625] Other attempts to incorporate collaboration into introductory programming include using Facebook to seek immediate assistance while learning Java [356] and awarding points to students for helping with group learning [512].…”

Section: Algorithm Visualisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Luxton-Reilly

Simón

Albluwi

et al. 2018

Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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127

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As computing becomes a mainstream discipline embedded in the school curriculum and acts as an enabler for an increasing range of academic disciplines in higher education, the literature on introductory programming is growing. Although there have been several reviews that focus on specific aspects of introductory programming, there has been no broad overview of the literature exploring recent trends across the breadth of introductory programming.This paper is the report of an ITiCSE working group that conducted a systematic review in order to gain an overview of the introductory programming literature. Partitioning the literature into papers addressing the student, teaching, the curriculum, and assessment, we explore trends, highlight advances in knowledge over the past 15 years, and indicate possible directions for future research.

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Section: Algorithm Visualisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Luxton-Reilly

Simón

Albluwi

et al. 2018

Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

362

127

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“…This means that students do not have to install, configure or update their DPP environment, which is often a major source of difficulty for novices. Moreover, two of the IDEs in this category are specifically targeted to novices, namely the widely known educational programming environment of BlueJ (Fisker et al, 2008) and an extension of Alice with support for pair programming called AliCe-ViLlagE (Al-Jarrah & Pontelli, 2014;. Finally, CyberCollage (Repenning et al, 2011) offers the chance to apply pair programming in the context of group work on designing, altering and playing games.…”

Section: Collaboration and Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A final remark concerning tools, is that fewer than one quarter have been evaluated in terms of specific features, namely VNC4DPP (Hanks, 2004;2005;2008), COOPER (Favela et al, 2004;Natsu et al, 2003), SCEPPSys (Tsompanoudi et al, 2013), AliCe-ViLlagE (Al-Jarrah & Pontelli, 2014;, COLLECE (Bravo et al, 2013), BlueJ (Fisker et al, 2008), JIMBO (Ghorashi & Jensen, 2016;, Collabode (Goldman et al, 2011a(Goldman et al, , 2011b, and Jazz (Meneely & Williams, 2009). The majority of the tools evaluated fall into the category of standalone IDEs and Eclipse plugins for DPP.…”

Section: Collaboration and Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed Pair Programming in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Satratzemi

Xinogalos

Tsompanoudi

2022

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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This paper presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of fifty-seven studies on Distributed Pair Programming (DPP) in higher education, identifying which studies investigated factors on the effectiveness of DPP as a method for learning programming, factors related to mediating and stimulating interactions between students, the measures/instruments used for exploring these factors, as well as the tools and their features. As DPP effectiveness is very promising as regards code quality and academic performance, the findings can contribute to a better understanding of how communication, collaboration and coordination are investigated. It was found that there are very few studies concerning compatibility, pair formation, and role contribution, the majority of which did not use data derived from students’ actions. Only a small number of studies used DPP tools with logging capabilities. Even though several IDEs and Eclipse plugins have been designed for DPP and offer specialized features, there are still studies which use a combination that include video conferencing and remote sharing tools along with various IDEs and auxiliary tools. This SLR can be of interest to educators that aim to apply DPP in educational settings, researchers designing informed empirical studies, as well as designers of DPP tools.

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“…BlueJ IDE provides visual tools to design a class and define the relationships between a class and other classes [19]. BlueJ has been extended to be used in data structure courses [25], to accommodate collaboration [8], to teach design patterns [24], and in programming embedded systems [2]. A survey of computing education research community in 2006 shows that more than 25% respondents use BlueJ IDE in introductory courses [27].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Student Adoption and Perceptions of a Web Integrated Development Environment

Valez

Yen

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Students often spend a considerable amount of time and effort installing and configuring programming tools and environments. This can frustrate, and distract them from more important learning objectives, particularly in introductory programming courses. A web-based integrated development environment can serve as a lowthreshold, ready-to-use programming environment, and reduce the time and effort needed to start practicing programming. In this paper, we report our experience of developing and deploying a web-based integrated development environment (web IDE) as an optional tool at a large public university that has been in use for over several years in various programming courses. We conducted a survey to understand students' perceptions toward the web IDE and usage of its features. Using the data from the survey, we explored potential correlations between student demographic and behavioral traits in adoption of the web IDE. The results of the survey suggest that around half of the students use the IDE often or very often. We also discovered that the likelihood of adoption of the IDE decreases as students to move to upper classes. In this paper, we also describe broader lessons for educators and researchers. CCS CONCEPTS • Applied computing → Computer-assisted instruction; • General and reference → Empirical studies.

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Group work support for the BlueJ IDE

Cited by 7 publications

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Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Distributed Pair Programming in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Student Adoption and Perceptions of a Web Integrated Development Environment

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