Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Title
SIGCSE '12 Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
In this paper, we present the design and development of a new approach to teaching the college-level introductory computing course (CS1) using the context of art and creative coding. Over the course of a semester, students create a portfolio of aesthetic visual designs that employ basic computing structures typically taught in traditional CS1 courses using the Processing programming language. The goal of this approach is to bring the excitement, creativity, and innovation fostered by the context of creative coding. We also present results from a comparative study involving two offerings of the new course at two different institutions. Additionally, we compare our results with another successful approach that uses personal robots to teach CS1.
Publisher's Statement
© ACM 2012. The published version of this article can be found here: http://doi.org/10.1145/2157136.2157214
DOI
http://doi.org/10.1145/2157136.2157214
Citation
Greenberg, I. et al. 2012.Creative coding and visual portfolios for CS1, Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education, February 29-March 03, 2012, Raleigh, North Carolina: 247-252.