Programming

A multi-national, multi-institutional study of assessment of programming skills of first-year CS students

M. McCracken, Vicki L. Almstrum, Danny Diaz et al. · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 2001 · 425 citations

Education, Computer Science, Educational Assessment +17

Contributing to success in an introductory computer science course

Brenda Cantwell Wilson, Sharon A. Shrock · 2001 · 378 citations

Education, Computer Science, Educational Psychology +16

The effect of student attributes on success in programming

Pat Byrne, Gerry Lyons · 2001 · 262 citations

Education, Computer Science, Higher Education +13

What best predicts computer proficiency?

Gerald E. Evans, Mark Simkin · Communications of the ACM · 1989 · 204 citations · Full text

Education, Computer Science, Educational Psychology +14

Does it help to have some programming experience before beginning a computing degree program?

Dianne Hagan, Selby Markham · 2000 · 179 citations

Education, Computer Science, Educational Assessment +11