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Treffer: More Than the Code: Learning Rules of Rejection in Writing Programs.

Title:
More Than the Code: Learning Rules of Rejection in Writing Programs.
Authors:
TENENBERG, JOSH1 jtenenbg@uw.edu, ROTH, WOLFF-MICHAEL2 mroth@uvic.ca, CHINN, DONALD3 dchinn@uw.edu, JORNET, ALFREDO4 a.g.jornet@iped.uio.no, SOCHA, DAVID5 socha@uw.edu, WALTER, SKIP6 skip.walter@fticonsulting.com
Source:
Communications of the ACM. May2018, Vol. 61 Issue 5, p66-71. 6p. 1 Color Photograph, 2 Diagrams, 2 Charts.
Subject Terms:
COMPUTER programming education, PRACTICE (Philosophy), TEACHER-student communication, STUDENT participation, RULES
Database:
Business Source Premier

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The article discusses an exercise in a computer science class to discover tacit rules of computer software programming as a social practice. Topics include the involvement of students in participative code writing, the relation between teacher and student in the exercise, and the learnability of rules for the rejection of software code.