Introducing Code Quality in the CS1 ClassroomShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: ITiCSE 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2024, p. 773-774Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Characterising code quality is a challenge that was addressed by Börstler et al.’s working group in 2017. As emerged from their study, educators, developers and students have different perceptions of the manifold aspects involved, and a major conclusion of that WG was that “code quality should be discussed more thoroughly in educational programs” [2, p. 70]. However, the lack of materials and the time constraints have slowed down progress in that regard. The goal of this working group is to propose manageable ways to address code quality in the CS1 classroom, with a particular focus on activities that help students become aware of and improve the quality of their code. To achieve this goal, we will (a) extract from the literature a comprehensive set of quality issues which will then be classified according to the appropriate strategies to fix them; and (b) circulate a survey to explore the instructors’ views on code quality issues and the way they deal with (or ignore) them. Based on this work we aim to produce: (1) a taxonomy of code quality issues with associated examples, as well as (2) a sample set of teaching materials to introduce those issues to CS1 students.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2024. p. 773-774
Keywords [en]
code quality, CS1, readability, refactoring, style
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-351002DOI: 10.1145/3649405.3659535ISI: 001265872800010Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85198638608OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-351002DiVA, id: diva2:1885677
Conference
29th Conference Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2024, Milan, Italy, Jul 8 2024 - Jul 10 2024
Note
Part of ISBN 9798400706035
QC 20240725
2024-07-242024-07-242024-09-05Bibliographically approved