Teaching sequence diagrams to programming beginners: And the change of algorithmic conceptions

Philipp Shah, Peter Hubwieser

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Abstract

Computer science students could have different concepts and misconceptions about the order of statements of object-oriented programming code and their effects. This paper shows the positive influence of early teaching UML sequence diagrams to programming beginners to their concepts of programming statements and the order thereof.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages307-310
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781509054671
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Jun 2017
Event8th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 25 Apr 201728 Apr 2017

Publication series

NameIEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
ISSN (Print)2165-9559
ISSN (Electronic)2165-9567

Conference

Conference8th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period25/04/1728/04/17

Keywords

  • Computer science concepts
  • Misconceptions
  • Order
  • Qualitative content analysis
  • Statements
  • UML sequence diagrams

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