Collection

CoED

Authors

Bryan A Jones; J W Bruce; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh

comprehensive examination of first-year CS students reports that only approximately20% of the surveyed students could solve programming problems expected by their instructors [4].“Issues impacting students learning how to program” was the topic of an entire Computers inEducation Division technical session at the 2019 American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) Annual Meeting [5]. Clearly, there is a need to explore new pedagogical approaches forteaching students how to program and design digital systems.Authors Jones and Mohammadi-Aragh are actively exploring literate programming (LP) as oneapproach to improving programming pedagogy [6–8]. In the LP approach, the programmer (author)composes the program (document) in a form that is readable by