- Title
- A Robust Portable Environment for First-Year Computer Science Students
- Creator
- Brown, Dane L, Connan, James
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465113
- Identifier
- vital:76574
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-92858-2_6"
- Description
- Computer science education in both South African universities and worldwide often aim at making students confident at problem solving by introducing various programming exercises. Standardising a computer environment where students can apply their computational thinking knowledge on a more even playing field – without worrying about software issues – can be beneficial for problem solving in classroom of diverse students. Research shows that having consistent access to this exposes students to core concepts of Computer Science. However, with the diverse student base in South Africa, not everyone has access to a personal computer or expensive software. This paper describes a new approach at first-year level that uses the power of a modified Linux distro on a flash drive to enable access to the same, fully-fledged, free and open-source environment, including the convenience of portability. This is used as a means to even the playing field in a diverse country like South Africa and address the lack of consistent access to a problem solving environment. Feedback from students and staff at the Institution are effectively heeded and attempted to be measured.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (15 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- SpringerLink
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ICT Education: 49th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2020, Virtual Event, July 6–9, 2020, Revised Selected Papers 49, Brown, D. and Connan, J., 2021. A Robust Portable Environment for First-Year Computer Science Students. In ICT Education: 49th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2020, Virtual Event, July 6–9, 2020, Revised Selected Papers 49 (pp. 88-103). Springer International Publishing, ICT Education: 49th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2020, Virtual Event, July 6–9, 2020, Revised Selected Papers 49 p. 88 2021 978-3-030-92858-2
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- Closed Access
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Brown, Dane A (Dr)
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RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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