Comics in CS1

Using Comics to Introduce & Reinforce Programming Concepts in CS1

Abstract

Recent work investigated the potential of comics to support the teaching and learning of programming concepts and suggested several ways coding strips, a form of comic strip with its corresponding code, can be used. Building on this work, we tested the recommended use cases of coding strip in an undergraduate introductory computer science course at a large comprehensive university. At the end of the course, we surveyed students to assess their experience and found they benefited in various ways. Our work contributes a demonstration of the various ways comics can be used in introductory CS courses and an initial understanding of benefits and challenges with using comics in computing education gleaned from an analysis of students’ survey responses and code submissions.

Here is a pre-recorded presentation that was submitted to SIGCSE’21.



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@inproceedings{suh2021using, title={Using Comics to Introduce and Reinforce Programming Concepts in CS1}, author={Suh, Sangho and Latulipe, Celine and Lee, Ken Jen and Cheng, Bernadette and Law, Edith}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education}, pages={369--375}, year={2021} }