Enhancing Computing Student Employability Skills Through Partnership Working in STEM Outreach - Springer:
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29166-6_10
Scott Turner
Published in Software Engineering Education Going Agile Part of the series Progress in IS pp 67-71
Abstract
Student volunteering is growing in the UK and elsewhere, and there is an ongoing debate about whether it is really “self-evidently a ‘good thing’” or there is a greater need for reflection to determine whether this statement is true (Holdsworth and Quinn, Studies in Higher Education, 35(1), 113–127, 2010). This paper presents a personal reflection of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) volunteering as a potential route to increasing Computing student’s employability.
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Holdsworth, C., & Quinn, J. (2010). Student volunteering in English higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 35(1), 113–127.CrossRef
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Review of a Problems-First Approach to First Year Undergraduate Programming - Springer:
Gary J. Hill
Published in Software Engineering Education Going Agile Part of the series Progress in IS pp 73-80
This paper, predominantly discusses the teaching of programming and problem solving to undergraduate first year computing students, using robots/robot simulators and visual programming to emulate the robot tasks. The needs to focus initial programming education on problem solving, prior to the teaching of programming syntax and software design methodology is also considered. The main vehicle for this approach is a robot/robot simulation programmed in Java, followed by the programming of a visual representation/simulation to develop programming skills.
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